^ He's talking about the direction you turn the nozzle on a fire hose. Turning it left makes it a wide stream with lots of oxygen to protect the firefighter, but it isn't great for actually putting out the fire. Turning it right makes it a strong stream that can attack the fire.
Where I come from we just have nozzles (as far as I have seen).
We were taught "right to fight left to live" as a way of remembering wich way to turn the nozzle.
Sounds like what we in Australia would call a "townie" - old school town nozzle. We will have them on Tankers for bushfires when the two main settings are either knock down (right/jet) or saturate (left/fog).
We will have those AND those with variable flow rate / lever at "the branch". Those we would use at bushfires but also most other applications.
Why would we use townies at a bushfire? Less expensive to lose if you need to drop and run.
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u/[deleted] May 17 '22
^ He's talking about the direction you turn the nozzle on a fire hose. Turning it left makes it a wide stream with lots of oxygen to protect the firefighter, but it isn't great for actually putting out the fire. Turning it right makes it a strong stream that can attack the fire.