This is for establishing a secondary or tertiary supply line for wildfires or large industrial fires. They will have all the manpower and time to do this if the situation becomes bad enough.
Funny how no one seems to understand that this system is not intended as a primary water source. It is used when you need big amounts of water over long distances like industrial fires or bush fires. We are talking 11000l/minute over a distance of 6km. Of course it is not built up in 2 minutes.
@wout kwanten 15-30 minutes plus an additional 15 min to fill up the hoses depends on the number of people you have available. In germany we have a system that is more efficient and faster. Just look for Hytrans Fire System (HFS)
For those people trying to criticize it without looking further, this system is for long operations requiring lots of water. For example industrials fires, warehouse fires, forest fires also. THIS IS NOT a primary water source, most of the time water from hydrants is used to tackle smaller fires so no they didn’t take long to get set up. Unless you guys have seen fire departments tackle big forest and industrial fires in minutes which I highly doubt.
Slightly over engineered, for sure. It's like they designed it with clearances for an F1 car's approach and departure angles, looks like their trucks could have driven over one made of railroad tie cribbing.
@@kevinvermeer9011 You know it went like ..... The system is 14 million dollars. How much is the little bridge? $14,000.00 Throw in two...no like I'm paying for it.....
Sweet system and when I saw the title I immediately thought they better have enough hose in there to get the supply to where they need it and now I see that they have. They know what they’re doing hopefully they do. Interesting to see how they do it.
This system has been well thought out, but its not a fast deploy system. It's for a long time and distance water supply. Maybe for use after a earthquake or any long lasting disaster that could use all the water in a city supply. Its use is to augment a water system. I know around here it might look crazy ,but it's well designed.
Work smarter, not harder. Pass on this setup. I can see this being viable in a very narrow set of instances of long term operation of exposure protection is required. Setup time is horrendous considering the results. But for a long term operation, having that output on unmanned equipment could be very beneficial.
" Setup time is horrendous considering the results" which result? Being able to flow large amounts of water with only one truck instead of numerous trucks on one line or running as shuttle. Of course this isn't what you use every day or once a week, but there are definetly scenarios where large capacity pumps are necessary ... not only large structure fires, but especially during floods. Guess that's why the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief came as mutual aid to the USA after Hurricane Katrina
It's definately worth the effort. German fire engines flow around 2000L per minute, so this system can supply around 5 engines. It'll take at least 5 engines to supply 1 engine over 2 km's. Basically, this thing does what 25 engines normally do. Simple maths: it takes time to set up, but compared to the alternative it's cheaper and easyer to set up. EDIT: I just now realised we are talking 12 km's, wich make the numbers even more ridiculous.
Love it. Also during that storm we needed help. But that’s also why the US has pumpers, tenders and tankers. But Germany’s fire Departments are a lot better then the USAs.
@lee rice nope, not really; Of course it's not as fast as simply deploying a hose from a hose cart or hose bay, but it's not like it would take hours to set the system up and get it going
@lee rice no-one stated that this would work for every location... however in fact many large industries are alongside or nearby rivers and canals, and also commercial and residential areas are often next to lakes, canals and rivers of all sizes. Within a 10 mile radius around my village there are 2 rivers and dozens of lakes, with several lakes already being within 1.5 miles ... and my area isn't quite dominted by lakes; There are some areas which are clearly dominted by lakes or canals throughout a greater area. Btw there's the very same issue with long distance water supply when you take plain normal hoses and apparatus, often with multiple Portable Pump Vans / Trucks serving as booster
That is some really severe duty pumper and hoses. Like those big industrial fire trucks with their 12 inch 8000 gpm hoses down near those Texas and Louisiana refineries. Would love to see the Huston fire department with those inundator tank robots.
Carl Loar California has similar systems in use, although the Cal Fire usually uses fire retardant, fire lines, and air support to fight most wild fires, they have used very similar set ups for massive industrial firws
lee rice “long distance water supply” it’s not designed to go up a mountain, it’s a supply line. It’s designed to bring water along a long area that lacks a hydrant or a static source to draft off of, allowing firefighters to have water without using a shuttling system with drop tank and lots of tankers. Misusing a system for something it was never designed to do is no reason to write it off
lee rice no. No one ever said it was, is California one giant mountain? No. There are flatter areas and large roaming hills. Wild land tactics change between them. If I need to set up a forward supply location to fill up a helicopter to allow it to more effectively do it’s job, I can use a long supply line to do that. If we’re utilizing rolling pumpers I can set a fill point much closer to the location of attack, if we’re trying to hold the line at a series of houses, we can use multiple long supply lines and boost pumpers to set up 1 1/2 attack lines with combo nozzles and create a fog cover to keep the fire back. There’s tons of ways you can utilize a system like this, although I don’t expect someone who doesn’t fight fire to understand the massive utility a system like this could offer the teams in the fields. There’s no way in hell someone’s dragging this line anywhere, supply line weighs enough dry, trying to haul any more then 500 feet with multiple people becomes an extremely difficult task, hense the truck deployment method shown in the video, alleviating the need for someone to drag 10,000 feet + of supply line. This is quite obviously designed to be used to extend my water source not being water up a mountain.
lee rice fire equipment is pricy, always has been and always will be. The fire department I’m on just finished paying off a 1.2 million dollar 100 foot ladder truck, the tax payers pay for their own safety, how much their willing to fund us will directly affect our ability to keep you safe. You should talk to your local fire department and see if they have the money to keep up with what’s required of them, the personnel, or anything in general. Unless your in a large city everyone is understaffed, underfunded and under equipped. I’m a tax payer too and I know my taxes go to necessary equipment. Btw that truck costs less than a fire engine, so mr tax payer, would you rather help your state buy a new engine at the price of 750,000 dollars or buy one of these for 300,000? To be honest I think it’s pretty shit of you to say something like that, how would you feel if it was your house or your property and the fire department didn’t have something they needed, what if they have to wait 30+ minutes to get water because of the shuttle distance, your arrogance and misunderstanding of the fire service is astounding since you think your opinion means anything at all, instead of being useless waste of oxygen how about you actually volunteer and do something
many fire departments can roll up with some good manpower. In my home town they had a station crew of at least 21 fire-fighters at a 47 bay fire station. Many Engines at volunteer departments are staffed with a crew of 9. Last year I was able to film a full house response of 18 units responding at once ...
Can you imagine being the probies having to repack that 12" (?) Black hose and the officer not telling them it was mechanized??? Seriously...can they justify the cost by how many times they will actually need it?
there are some apparatus which are used like once in a decade but the equipment still HAS TO be provided for the case that sth happens. I know an Aerial in a German museum which never ever (!) went to an actual emergency call. In the city where I grew up the FD have a nitrogen vaporizer with an estimated call volume of 1 per year; In the town where I studied the chief told me "I've never seen that Pod Carrier on an actual emergency call before" after I filmed it responding to a fire call.
FDNY used to have something similar called the Superpumper system. I think the real use for this is a situation where the municipal water system goes down and you need to supply massive fire flows. Is it worth it? They think so.
Graham Scobell usually this kind of equipment would be used in big fires (which could last for days/weeks) without a large enough water supply near the fire. And it also works great if you need a lot of water for those water cannons.
'Feuerwehr Panzers!' I'm sure I wrote it wrong. Interesting water pumping system, tracked water cannons and hose bridging system. Blessings to firefighters the world over.
This isn't the first or even secondary water supply line. This is for large fires, like forest fires or the swamp fire in meppen, germany last year. They are also good for floods.
@@אוריפלסי Oh, you wouldn't want to pump the water in, but out,. This would come into action after most of the water has receded, but there are still flooded areas. The water would then be pumped into the nearest river or canal. This may also come ito action when large underground buildings, like parking garages, are completly flodded after a major flood,because with regular pumps, it would take ages to pump out that much water. Oh, and your username seems to do weird stuff with the comment box...
In my part of the USA, there’s no way the elected officials would ever allocate the funds for a very expensive, limited purpose vehicle that might be needed once or twice every 5 years.
and then there are situations where mutual aid responses from abroad (!) are necessary to deal with the events which hardly ever happen but definetly will at some time ... Concerning your statement "very expensive, limited purpose vehicle" ... look closely at the video. It's a Pod Carrier / Roll-off container truck / hooklift truck: that equipment pod is special and purpose-built, but the truck can be used for dozens of different special equipment pods (containers), so this is far from limited purpose. It's not an entire truck built for only one purpose, but a carrier truck designed to handle all kinds of rarely used special equipment pods. They can range from Heavy Rescue to foam tanks, tanks with frozen carbondioxide and to nitrogen vaporizers, hazmat, decontamination, radiation protection, collapse rescue, crane equipment, basically any special operation you can think of
Do forget one point! It can be a supply hose line *to the fireplace* but it can be a *pump water from a flooded place* back into the river or sea too. Some hazard fire places are far away from water or broken supply hose lines build in earth or flooded places or repair/renew a channel or over flooded dams ... It is use here on a fire apparatus but can do so many more.
@@elizabethridenbaugh7731 hey... no they are out now witch is great.. alot of homes lost and wild life hurt or burnt alive and some live stock hurt as well
Well .. Call the Dutch . . . :-) Basically, it's a Dutch invention from the 70's and one of the main manufacturers is based in Holland (Hytrans). Over here, every district has several of these standard hook-pods, which can also be transported by civil trucks like those of construction Cie's Not only used for Industrial/Forest fires, but also for large normal fires, where the hydrant systems lacks capacity. In most districts, there called by protocol in case of 'Large Fire' (3 pumps) or worse. Typical deployment time from call to water approx 30mins
Well I think Firetrucks with built in tanks would arrive to the scene first and immediately start putting out the fire while this system sets up and then it can take over for much longer, because it doesn’t have a small built in tank.
Amen Adrian. Unless this is something for long term use, i.e. temporary water main replacement, what benifit is it? That has to be 8" or better hose. How much water does it take to fill this let alone start water movement?
large structure fires are one scnearios of course, but also keep in mind that there are other scenarios where you have to be able to flow large amounts of water, e.g. floods; Try to empty a flooded area by using the average supply and attack hoses and the average pumps on Engines and Tankers ...
@@Wa3ypx I know two century floods and several other sometimes severe floods; Some of them lead to mutual aid convoys which basically involved departments from the entire country; Also after hurricane Katrina, apparatus from the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief went to the USA with several high volume pumps trying to empty flooded boroughs; It sure isn't a common scenario happening every year, but when it's necessary I guess department and people are happy that they exist; I've also seen a 1st person video from a Dutch FD responding to a structure fire in a warehouse; THey set up this kind of unit right from the beginning to have a great water supply from the nearby canal
Never used ramps over large diameter hose from the hose layer. We just closed the road. No problem. Those hose ramps are very labour intensive and the UK fire services are so low on manpower things like that just aren't practical. The UK fire services used to be the best in the world but thanks to successive governments they are a shadow of what they used to be. As for morale....rock bottom. Oh how I envy countries whose governments put a premium on their emergency services .
why not? There are also larger ramps which are specificly suited for LDH?! Closing down some roads might not make sense, even for emergency vehicles heading to or leaving the scene; Just because they're low on manpower in the UK doesn't mean that the departments elsewhere are low on manpower as well. Last year I filmed a full house response with 18 emergency vehicles in Germany....
Strange how something can be so over engineered and under engineered at the same time. All the functionality of moving water seems to be fine but the setup is pretty hacked. No wheels on large metal pieces requiring multiple people to carry. No outside ridge on the ramps that would keep vehicles from slipping off. An entire 6" metal wedge piece made specially as an extra connection instead of just tapering the ramp to the ground. etc etc
They are not sucking; the large machinery in the water are pumps (hydraulically powered via the two black lines connected to each) they force water into the soft tube
The "CONCEPT" is good. But in reality for larger departments such as The New York City Fire Department. This is unworkable. The amount of time to assemble and deploy is extremely critical during a FAST MOVING FIRE. I really love the HOSE BRIDGING EQUIPMENT.
Trust me, we have many Tankers covering the entire range, but for the large jobs we have the equipment to operate LDH for water supply and attack, so why not use it? SOme operations simply don't work efficiently by using Tankers ... take floods as an example, how do you pump those large amount of water by using only Tankers? I guess there's a good reason why the German Federal Agency for Technical relief came with high volume pumps as mutual aid to New Orleans ...
😂Man you can not compare that. This system makes 12000 liter PER MINUTE (about 4000gal). so how many tankers do you want to buy? It's a worst case Szenario equipment...
@@piuforte rural america has proven tanker use time and again, you can youtube all the tanker success stories, there are many here. Rural america wouldnt have the man power to utilize this
@@EnjoyFirefighting Cost/the required man power, the training cost for said manpower, how many systems, one for every fire dept? No, so which fd has to stomach the cost of this to mutal aid it to others? Why would they want to?
@@gw62112009 not one at every department, but here they are purchased by relatively large city FDs and industrial FDs, depending on the location and size of the department sometimes also at FDs in large towns. There are definetly far more specialized types of apparatus and pieces of equipment, of course all of them require training. Let it be desinfection, CBRNE, EOD, nitrogen vaporizer, frozen carbondioxide, remote controlled fire-fighting support units, fire and rescue trains, tunnel fire apparatus, turbine powered aerosol extinguisher apparatus, ... These systems aren't meant to be used only in the departments' primary response areas but they can cover a greater area for mutual aid, within the country or abroad if necessary. Some monitors of the Hytrans high flow system are able to handle up to 14,000 gpm ... that's quite a bit more than the former FDNY Superpumper was able to supply. Tankers are great, no doubt, but some things simply don't really work with Tankers ... we have tiny to super large Tankers based on single trucks, semi trucks and truck + trailer combinations, but it's simply not sufficient and they are usually more expensive than one such piece of equipment pod
Вы не поняли маленько, это плановая тренирова/профилактика по наполнению прудов водой во время засухи. Так как мелкие водоёмы высыхают изза отсутвия осадков таким образом в Германии пожарные части их заполняют
You could have 2 engines start drafting in a quarter of the time, and probably flow a comparable volume of water. All without spending what a million plus.
@@dawsont933 trailers? I don't see any trailers here in the video; That container / pod system is mutlti-functional for all kinds of special operations and definetly more cost-effective than purchasing complete seperate trucks for all special operations, especially as some of them are used only a coupld of times a year: tanks with frozen carbondioxide, heavy rescue, nitrogen vaporizers, radiation protection, remote controlled robots etc That flow rate wouldn't be common for municipal fire apparatus here, rather for industrial apparatus. Take a flood scenario: do you really want to keep an Aerial stuck with it for several days, not being able to do it's actual job and run emergencies where the ladder is needed?
In the Netherlands there are since 1998 more than 100 of similar systems in action. The purpose is to bring water over up to 3 kilometre for feeding firetrucks when needed. Every Safety Region (Kreis) has at least one of these units. See an excercise at : th-cam.com/video/7lqNZOsOrQM/w-d-xo.html
With the ramps to go over the hose definitely. Judging that it took like 3 minutes on the video, depending on how close the vehicle itself is, we're talking like 15-20 minutes set up time to pull everything out, carry it over, and bolt it in.
So while we use a comparabel system in Germany it's basicly like this: ~One hour after calling these units you have a stable water supply. During this hour a water supply is already established! But in addition to this you have now these units delivering a good amount of water, which you can be pretty sure is stable and a High amount of water (spoken for European standards). Tldr: this isnt the first supply line its an additional supply line.
This is probably for an extended/oversized/industrial/wildland fire. Hope they have massive amounts of manpower to roll the hose back. Don't look like fun.
I've watched municipal departments take that long to set up one engine to flow water from a swimming pool! If they didn't have municipal systems and hydrants, they were back to square ont.
Being able to flow up to 14,000 gpm a swimming pool would be empty in no time and a hydrant system can hardly provide that amount of water; These systems are usually used alongside rivers and canals
Вы не поняли маленько, это плановая тренирова/профилактика по наполнению прудов водой во время засухи. Так как мелкие водоёмы высыхают изза отсутвия осадков таким образом в Германии пожарные части их заполняют
@@Wolframcarbid85 с трудом верится. Так как там насоса как такового нет. Бандура почти контейнер занимает а еле качает. У меня шахтный насос 60кубовый 3 кВт по серьёзней будет.
The part that goes in the water should be remote drivable i think, hell put it on an arm like a concrete pumper. Then personnel doesn't have to go near the source and possibly get hurt with that much weight.
about those ramps to drive over the black hose----those single safety pins in the middle of the connecting pins --how do they keep the pins from moving so they do not shake out of the ramp sections? why don't the big pins have a flange on one end, and the safety pin goes on the other end ?
надо было не пожарных заставлять собирать эту систему , а разработчиков . странно что реактивный ствол самоходный , а к фильтру на заборном рукаве никто не догадался приварить пару колес
ich weis ja nicht wie alt das Video ist, aber eines sollte heutzutage klar sein, wenig manpower, viel Leistung sollte das ziel sein. 4 Mann zum aufbau einer solchen Wasserversorgung sind sicherlich nicht viel, aber die ganzen kleinen Schrauben, sowas geht garnicht. das muss mit 5mm Dreck drauf selbstständig verriegeln und somit binnen kürzerer Zeit einsatzbereit sein. so gefummeln mit so kleinen Schrauben die im ernstfall verloren gehen, geht garnicht, schon garnicht dann auch noch mit Handschuhen.
Even if its Complicated, its a kinda easy way for bringing almost 3000 gpm 7.5 Miles across... In addition: its used in situations that take longer for example Industrial fires
Well in a real life scenario if this would be available it wouldn't be first on scene you would have already engine and tankers on scene this comes as an addition later when the Chief thinks They need more water so basically it's cool yeah but never going to be standart they are already systems we use on Germany and their are working great
@@TheGhostOfDefi Hells Bells! Get a half way decent tanker shuttle going and you can supply several master streams. If the fire has gotten ahead, cut it off and concentrate on unburned side. For water movement 7.5 miles? The pressure it would take to do an effective relay pumping that distance is impracticle. Look at your fire district, pick an idustrial complex. Then pick a water source, your only water source, 7.5 miles away. You have to admit to yourself you would change your tactics.
@@Wa3ypx long story short: nope. Im a firefighter in Germany we use different tactics, we have different environmental factors and a different infrastructure, i think we can agree on that. As people sayed before, we use in Germany already a system which is comparable to this and it has prooven itself in major fires. These systems use low pressure high flow with just one pump.
Вы не поняли маленько, это плановая тренирова/профилактика по наполнению прудов водой во время засухи. Так как мелкие водоёмы высыхают изза отсутвия осадков таким образом в Германии пожарные части их заполняют
What is the run time before needing to refuel? Say 50% power for x amount of hours like with forest fires where your at it for days and having trucks come and fill there water holds
Its a neat setup, but very limited usage. Would be ok in wildfire but wildfires move so fast by the time its setup it would either already be on fire or missed the fire entirely. Maybe massive multi alarm industrial fires that are remote(no Hydrants in the area) and also have a large body of water within 15km... but i cant see those being a common occurrence either...and even then if the fire is that large and remote its just going to be a let it burn scenario anyways as there is likely nothing left worth saving. Unlikely it could be setup in time during a flooding scenario to make difference. Once the flood has happened the damage is done, there is no rush to quickly move the water again. Its hard to imagine such a critical drinking water supply that would fail and needed that much volume in rapid response.
some wildfires don't move that fast; But yes it's basically for any extraordinary large fire scenario where big water supply is required and the hydrant network might not be able to supply that amount. Also for flood scenarios where you want to pump large amounts of water out of an area. Damage might be done already, but you don't want to keep the water in a low area for weeks or even months, and you don't want to tie dozens of relatively small fire apparatus with their average size hoses and pump capacities on such a scenario. Also that pumping might make the difference if further areas will be affected or not, if a dike withstands the pressure or not. The USA already had the scenario that mutual aid had to come from abroad with high volume pumps to support local departments and crews in such a flood scenario
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This is for establishing a secondary or tertiary supply line for wildfires or large industrial fires. They will have all the manpower and time to do this if the situation becomes bad enough.
MrDK0010 but in case of a wildfire say the fire burns out of control they wouldn’t have time to grab the equipment and run away
This is smth you build up far, far outside the immediate danger zone.
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Funny how no one seems to understand that this system is not intended as a primary water source.
It is used when you need big amounts of water over long distances like industrial fires or bush fires.
We are talking 11000l/minute over a distance of 6km. Of course it is not built up in 2 minutes.
@wout kwanten 15-30 minutes plus an additional 15 min to fill up the hoses depends on the number of people you have available.
In germany we have a system that is more efficient and faster. Just look for Hytrans Fire System (HFS)
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Is this not in Germany?
@@Luke-no3dg when I saw it right it is austria
@@1999Cheker Yes it is Austria. In some scenes you can see the name of the city. I looked it up and "Rankweil" (the city) is located in Austria.
For those people trying to criticize it without looking further, this system is for long operations requiring lots of water. For example industrials fires, warehouse fires, forest fires also. THIS IS NOT a primary water source, most of the time water from hydrants is used to tackle smaller fires so no they didn’t take long to get set up. Unless you guys have seen fire departments tackle big forest and industrial fires in minutes which I highly doubt.
Do not forget you can pump away water from a flooded area too!
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i was thinking the same thing that we should have one of each of this full set up in the rural town for when fires happen
I'm sure that little bridge was stupid money.
Would you like to drive a firetruck over that hose and possibly burst it?
Slightly over engineered, for sure. It's like they designed it with clearances for an F1 car's approach and departure angles, looks like their trucks could have driven over one made of railroad tie cribbing.
@@kevinvermeer9011 You know it went like .....
The system is 14 million dollars.
How much is the little bridge?
$14,000.00
Throw in two...no like I'm paying for it.....
@@charliebingaman571 Carry the Car by muscles... that would be faster than that
It has to handle 30ton/62000lbs fire engines so it has to be tough. Plus it has to be safe. 150% of max load shouldn't be a problem for it.
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While watching this I realized that I’ve fallen too far into the depths of TH-cam.
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Why do these informative videos have to have crap music
It's like the kind of music that plays when a crappy superhero is getting ready
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Sweet system and when I saw the title I immediately thought they better have enough hose in there to get the supply to where they need it and now I see that they have. They know what they’re doing hopefully they do. Interesting to see how they do it.
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This system has been well thought out, but its not a fast deploy system. It's for a long time and distance water supply. Maybe for use after a earthquake or any long lasting disaster that could use all the water in a city supply. Its use is to augment a water system. I know around here it might look crazy ,but it's well designed.
California could use this or Lake Tahoe
Work smarter, not harder. Pass on this setup. I can see this being viable in a very narrow set of instances of long term operation of exposure protection is required. Setup time is horrendous considering the results. But for a long term operation, having that output on unmanned equipment could be very beneficial.
" Setup time is horrendous considering the results" which result? Being able to flow large amounts of water with only one truck instead of numerous trucks on one line or running as shuttle. Of course this isn't what you use every day or once a week, but there are definetly scenarios where large capacity pumps are necessary ... not only large structure fires, but especially during floods. Guess that's why the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief came as mutual aid to the USA after Hurricane Katrina
It's definately worth the effort. German fire engines flow around 2000L per minute, so this system can supply around 5 engines. It'll take at least 5 engines to supply 1 engine over 2 km's. Basically, this thing does what 25 engines normally do. Simple maths: it takes time to set up, but compared to the alternative it's cheaper and easyer to set up. EDIT: I just now realised we are talking 12 km's, wich make the numbers even more ridiculous.
Love it. Also during that storm we needed help. But that’s also why the US has pumpers, tenders and tankers. But Germany’s fire Departments are a lot better then the USAs.
That kink in the supply line is gonna cost them a ton of friction
they can still supply nozzles which can flow 14,000 gpm
Thats what the pump is for.
Its like the old "Soupa Pumpah" from FDNY, only more soupah! Gonna have to be sick on hose testing day!
I’ll deploy it, then putting in my two weeks, cause that’s how long it will take to put back in service.... Fight The Dragon Brother!!!!
actually it's done quite quickly with its modular layout ...
@lee rice nope, not really; Of course it's not as fast as simply deploying a hose from a hose cart or hose bay, but it's not like it would take hours to set the system up and get it going
@lee rice no-one stated that this would work for every location... however in fact many large industries are alongside or nearby rivers and canals, and also commercial and residential areas are often next to lakes, canals and rivers of all sizes. Within a 10 mile radius around my village there are 2 rivers and dozens of lakes, with several lakes already being within 1.5 miles ... and my area isn't quite dominted by lakes; There are some areas which are clearly dominted by lakes or canals throughout a greater area.
Btw there's the very same issue with long distance water supply when you take plain normal hoses and apparatus, often with multiple Portable Pump Vans / Trucks serving as booster
That is some really severe duty pumper and hoses. Like those big industrial fire trucks with their 12 inch 8000 gpm hoses down near those Texas and Louisiana refineries. Would love to see the Huston fire department with those inundator tank robots.
The best thing of this system is that you can work against gravity with out any pressure loss.
That was pretty awesome.
Nice one of the engineering mile stone. Keep safe keep awake
They could use that system in parts of California
Carl Loar California has similar systems in use, although the Cal Fire usually uses fire retardant, fire lines, and air support to fight most wild fires, they have used very similar set ups for massive industrial firws
lee rice “long distance water supply” it’s not designed to go up a mountain, it’s a supply line. It’s designed to bring water along a long area that lacks a hydrant or a static source to draft off of, allowing firefighters to have water without using a shuttling system with drop tank and lots of tankers. Misusing a system for something it was never designed to do is no reason to write it off
lee rice no. No one ever said it was, is California one giant mountain? No. There are flatter areas and large roaming hills. Wild land tactics change between them. If I need to set up a forward supply location to fill up a helicopter to allow it to more effectively do it’s job, I can use a long supply line to do that. If we’re utilizing rolling pumpers I can set a fill point much closer to the location of attack, if we’re trying to hold the line at a series of houses, we can use multiple long supply lines and boost pumpers to set up 1 1/2 attack lines with combo nozzles and create a fog cover to keep the fire back. There’s tons of ways you can utilize a system like this, although I don’t expect someone who doesn’t fight fire to understand the massive utility a system like this could offer the teams in the fields. There’s no way in hell someone’s dragging this line anywhere, supply line weighs enough dry, trying to haul any more then 500 feet with multiple people becomes an extremely difficult task, hense the truck deployment method shown in the video, alleviating the need for someone to drag 10,000 feet + of supply line. This is quite obviously designed to be used to extend my water source not being water up a mountain.
lee rice fire equipment is pricy, always has been and always will be. The fire department I’m on just finished paying off a 1.2 million dollar 100 foot ladder truck, the tax payers pay for their own safety, how much their willing to fund us will directly affect our ability to keep you safe. You should talk to your local fire department and see if they have the money to keep up with what’s required of them, the personnel, or anything in general. Unless your in a large city everyone is understaffed, underfunded and under equipped. I’m a tax payer too and I know my taxes go to necessary equipment. Btw that truck costs less than a fire engine, so mr tax payer, would you rather help your state buy a new engine at the price of 750,000 dollars or buy one of these for 300,000? To be honest I think it’s pretty shit of you to say something like that, how would you feel if it was your house or your property and the fire department didn’t have something they needed, what if they have to wait 30+ minutes to get water because of the shuttle distance, your arrogance and misunderstanding of the fire service is astounding since you think your opinion means anything at all, instead of being useless waste of oxygen how about you actually volunteer and do something
That's some serious manpower there. I can't recall being on a department with that many Firefighters available on a shift.
many fire departments can roll up with some good manpower. In my home town they had a station crew of at least 21 fire-fighters at a 47 bay fire station. Many Engines at volunteer departments are staffed with a crew of 9. Last year I was able to film a full house response of 18 units responding at once ...
We have 7 stations in the county I work at we are lucky to get 5 guys on a county all call
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1:21 that guy was looking like, "did I do it right"?
Can you imagine being the probies having to repack that 12" (?) Black hose and the officer not telling them it was mechanized??? Seriously...can they justify the cost by how many times they will actually need it?
It's based on a stock truck chassis. And it might be a swappable bed. Also it's Germany.
there are some apparatus which are used like once in a decade but the equipment still HAS TO be provided for the case that sth happens. I know an Aerial in a German museum which never ever (!) went to an actual emergency call. In the city where I grew up the FD have a nitrogen vaporizer with an estimated call volume of 1 per year; In the town where I studied the chief told me "I've never seen that Pod Carrier on an actual emergency call before" after I filmed it responding to a fire call.
Night Fury Those are Austrian firefighters.
FDNY used to have something similar called the Superpumper system. I think the real use for this is a situation where the municipal water system goes down and you need to supply massive fire flows. Is it worth it? They think so.
@@Cthippo1 it definetly is; And while these systems can flow even more than the former SuperPumper, the FDNY runs a few of these things today as well
Both comical and fascinating at the same time.
Looks like a lot of hard but it looks like they know what they are doing
I think the fire would have burnt its self out bu the time they have it all rigged!
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Graham Scobell usually this kind of equipment would be used in big fires (which could last for days/weeks) without a large enough water supply near the fire. And it also works great if you need a lot of water for those water cannons.
'Feuerwehr Panzers!' I'm sure I wrote it wrong.
Interesting water pumping system, tracked water cannons and hose bridging system.
Blessings to firefighters the world over.
3 hours later, when the pump was finally primed, the entire village had already burned.
This isn't the first or even secondary water supply line. This is for large fires, like forest fires or the swamp fire in meppen, germany last year. They are also good for floods.
Next one who didn't understand
@@thoughtfox2409 why would you wan't to pump in all that water when there is a flood🤪?
@@אוריפלסי Oh, you wouldn't want to pump the water in, but out,. This would come into action after most of the water has receded, but there are still flooded areas. The water would then be pumped into the nearest river or canal. This may also come ito action when large underground buildings, like parking garages, are completly flodded after a major flood,because with regular pumps, it would take ages to pump out that much water. Oh, and your username seems to do weird stuff with the comment box...
Until I saw it automatically re rolling I was gunna say holy fuck I’d hate to be the rookie that had to re rack that one
In my part of the USA, there’s no way the elected officials would ever allocate the funds for a very expensive, limited purpose vehicle that might be needed once or twice every 5 years.
and then there are situations where mutual aid responses from abroad (!) are necessary to deal with the events which hardly ever happen but definetly will at some time ...
Concerning your statement "very expensive, limited purpose vehicle" ... look closely at the video. It's a Pod Carrier / Roll-off container truck / hooklift truck: that equipment pod is special and purpose-built, but the truck can be used for dozens of different special equipment pods (containers), so this is far from limited purpose. It's not an entire truck built for only one purpose, but a carrier truck designed to handle all kinds of rarely used special equipment pods. They can range from Heavy Rescue to foam tanks, tanks with frozen carbondioxide and to nitrogen vaporizers, hazmat, decontamination, radiation protection, collapse rescue, crane equipment, basically any special operation you can think of
I'll bet CALIFORNIA is wishing they had at least one of these right now...
Do forget one point! It can be a supply hose line *to the fireplace* but it can be a *pump water from a flooded place* back into the river or sea too. Some hazard fire places are far away from water or broken supply hose lines build in earth or flooded places or repair/renew a channel or over flooded dams ...
It is use here on a fire apparatus but can do so many more.
RIP to the guy that has to roll the whole thing back up
6 guys reloading in the back of truck
Aaron Vallejo huh
@@timothyshibu3098 just watch to end bud
there are hose recovery units on the modern pods like this
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We need acouple of these here in Australia
Are your guys wild fires still going on?
@@elizabethridenbaugh7731 hey... no they are out now witch is great.. alot of homes lost and wild life hurt or burnt alive and some live stock hurt as well
It has been around for about 35 years, so what are they waiting for........
Robert Chinnock they gotta start expanding their airplane fleet to fight fires, it looked to me like they lacked a bit on this.
Well .. Call the Dutch . . . :-)
Basically, it's a Dutch invention from the 70's and one of the main manufacturers is based in Holland (Hytrans).
Over here, every district has several of these standard hook-pods, which can also be transported by civil trucks like those of construction Cie's
Not only used for Industrial/Forest fires, but also for large normal fires, where the hydrant systems lacks capacity.
In most districts, there called by protocol in case of 'Large Fire' (3 pumps) or worse.
Typical deployment time from call to water approx 30mins
The Hytrans Fire System already exists ...
HTFS: 3.000l/min @ 10bar & LUF: 11.000l/min @ 12bar... just a little difference ;)
@@danieldorr7517 sorry but the HFS HydroSub 1400 delivers 45000 lpm / 12 bar
Ouch... I didn’t even know that it exists. Shame over my head and thanks for the input. 😄👍
This seems so long winded that I'm unsure how useful it could possibly be.
Well I think Firetrucks with built in tanks would arrive to the scene first and immediately start putting out the fire while this system sets up and then it can take over for much longer, because it doesn’t have a small built in tank.
I want to tell you that if you have 2,5k litres on firetruck, you will be out of water like just in one minute or so
The great distance that the water is moved is what makes it useful. All the water in the world is useless if you can't put it on the fire.
They look like ant, organization, teamwork. Awesome !!
Very much a balance of justification for the investment and manpower need versus let it burn!
Amen Adrian. Unless this is something for long term use, i.e. temporary water main replacement, what benifit is it? That has to be 8" or better hose. How much water does it take to fill this let alone start water movement?
large structure fires are one scnearios of course, but also keep in mind that there are other scenarios where you have to be able to flow large amounts of water, e.g. floods; Try to empty a flooded area by using the average supply and attack hoses and the average pumps on Engines and Tankers ...
@@EnjoyFirefighting Hmmmm in 35yrs on the job we never had to do that. But makes sense!
@@Wa3ypx I know two century floods and several other sometimes severe floods; Some of them lead to mutual aid convoys which basically involved departments from the entire country; Also after hurricane Katrina, apparatus from the German Federal Agency for Technical Relief went to the USA with several high volume pumps trying to empty flooded boroughs; It sure isn't a common scenario happening every year, but when it's necessary I guess department and people are happy that they exist;
I've also seen a 1st person video from a Dutch FD responding to a structure fire in a warehouse; THey set up this kind of unit right from the beginning to have a great water supply from the nearby canal
If only they had this in America
Yes i had to look up Liters to gallons (11,000 liters of water per minute) 2,905.?? Very Nice amount
Never used ramps over large diameter hose from the hose layer. We just closed the road. No problem. Those hose ramps are very labour intensive and the UK fire services are so low on manpower things like that just aren't practical. The UK fire services used to be the best in the world but thanks to successive governments they are a shadow of what they used to be. As for morale....rock bottom. Oh how I envy countries whose governments put a premium on their emergency services .
why not? There are also larger ramps which are specificly suited for LDH?! Closing down some roads might not make sense, even for emergency vehicles heading to or leaving the scene; Just because they're low on manpower in the UK doesn't mean that the departments elsewhere are low on manpower as well. Last year I filmed a full house response with 18 emergency vehicles in Germany....
By the time they set everything up the fire would have burnt half the earth
🤦🏼♂️ its not that they are not extinguishing while setting these up 😂
Liam sels but what are they extinguishing with all the equipment needs each other if one part fails your screwed 😹
Ninja Drags why do you thing there are two pumps? Think before you speak
Strange how something can be so over engineered and under engineered at the same time. All the functionality of moving water seems to be fine but the setup is pretty hacked. No wheels on large metal pieces requiring multiple people to carry. No outside ridge on the ramps that would keep vehicles from slipping off. An entire 6" metal wedge piece made specially as an extra connection instead of just tapering the ramp to the ground. etc etc
It's made to be stowable. And no "outside ridge" will stop a vehicle from driving off the edge of a ramp.
Also remember, nobody knows on which terrain they have to use the bridge. Keeping it simple/flexible might be a advantage here.
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Wow that’s pretty amazing
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When you realize one of these would be priceless in california rn...
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Neat equipment!
thats what i call super team work
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Great show of teamwork
Whole city is on fire...
Next one who didn't understand when this water supply is used
It’s all fun and games until it’s time to bed all that hose…..
I love to know how they were able to draft with those soft hoses without them collapsing.
It looked like those were hydraulic operate pumps they floated out with the hoses.
@@kenmeinken8115 That is new to me, and something I haven't seen. I am use to seeing a hard suction hose hooked up to a pumper.
@@MatthewMello The units in the water are floating//semi-submursible waterpumps indeed.
@@MatthewMello I could use some hard suction
They are not sucking; the large machinery in the water are pumps (hydraulically powered via the two black lines connected to each) they force water into the soft tube
How many years does this take to clean up again?
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The "CONCEPT" is good. But in reality for larger departments such as The New York City Fire Department. This is unworkable.
The amount of time to assemble and deploy is extremely critical during a FAST MOVING FIRE.
I really love the HOSE BRIDGING EQUIPMENT.
Looks like a bigger version of the Dutch "GWT" system, which has a transport hose of 150mm over 3km and no fire robots.
Correct
imagine learning there's a leak somewhere
i'm getting rid of that bloody chip pan, burned the kitchen again before the fire brigade got there.
buy tankers, geez, one guy can operate it.
Trust me, we have many Tankers covering the entire range, but for the large jobs we have the equipment to operate LDH for water supply and attack, so why not use it? SOme operations simply don't work efficiently by using Tankers ... take floods as an example, how do you pump those large amount of water by using only Tankers? I guess there's a good reason why the German Federal Agency for Technical relief came with high volume pumps as mutual aid to New Orleans ...
😂Man you can not compare that. This system makes 12000 liter PER MINUTE (about 4000gal). so how many tankers do you want to buy? It's a worst case Szenario equipment...
@@piuforte rural america has proven tanker use time and again, you can youtube all the tanker success stories, there are many here. Rural america wouldnt have the man power to utilize this
@@EnjoyFirefighting Cost/the required man power, the training cost for said manpower, how many systems, one for every fire dept? No, so which fd has to stomach the cost of this to mutal aid it to others? Why would they want to?
@@gw62112009 not one at every department, but here they are purchased by relatively large city FDs and industrial FDs, depending on the location and size of the department sometimes also at FDs in large towns. There are definetly far more specialized types of apparatus and pieces of equipment, of course all of them require training. Let it be desinfection, CBRNE, EOD, nitrogen vaporizer, frozen carbondioxide, remote controlled fire-fighting support units, fire and rescue trains, tunnel fire apparatus, turbine powered aerosol extinguisher apparatus, ...
These systems aren't meant to be used only in the departments' primary response areas but they can cover a greater area for mutual aid, within the country or abroad if necessary. Some monitors of the Hytrans high flow system are able to handle up to 14,000 gpm ... that's quite a bit more than the former FDNY Superpumper was able to supply.
Tankers are great, no doubt, but some things simply don't really work with Tankers ... we have tiny to super large Tankers based on single trucks, semi trucks and truck + trailer combinations, but it's simply not sufficient and they are usually more expensive than one such piece of equipment pod
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Да пока разложат всю эту конструкцию, тушить нечего будет
Реально, так медленно, мне кажется у них недавно был сончас, такие медленные и соные
Вы не поняли маленько, это плановая тренирова/профилактика по наполнению прудов водой во время засухи. Так как мелкие водоёмы высыхают изза отсутвия осадков таким образом в Германии пожарные части их заполняют
Giant hoses!!!!
You could have 2 engines start drafting in a quarter of the time, and probably flow a comparable volume of water. All without spending what a million plus.
Quarter? Like 1/16 of the time. Lol
@@powereddragon2093 it takes my department 1:30 for a hydrant and 3:47 for pond drafting
so two Engines flow more than 14,000 gpm?
@@EnjoyFirefighting no. 7 of our ladder trucks do. And it takes like 30 minutes plus it's a lot better than having 2 useless ass trailers
@@dawsont933 trailers? I don't see any trailers here in the video; That container / pod system is mutlti-functional for all kinds of special operations and definetly more cost-effective than purchasing complete seperate trucks for all special operations, especially as some of them are used only a coupld of times a year: tanks with frozen carbondioxide, heavy rescue, nitrogen vaporizers, radiation protection, remote controlled robots etc
That flow rate wouldn't be common for municipal fire apparatus here, rather for industrial apparatus. Take a flood scenario: do you really want to keep an Aerial stuck with it for several days, not being able to do it's actual job and run emergencies where the ladder is needed?
What is the purpose with that system with the small pin in the middle with the connecting pin ??
To fix the connection pin in place
It looked like the clouds were delivering a lot more water that day.
We need that in California now
You need some other things FIRST !
Wow , that's really cool ,what country is this ? 👍😀🚒
system was invented in the Netherlands, but the video clips right here are from Austria
@@EnjoyFirefighting Oh ok I appreciate your response , thanks my friend !
In the Netherlands there are since 1998 more than 100 of similar systems in action. The purpose is to bring water over up to 3 kilometre for feeding firetrucks when needed. Every Safety Region (Kreis) has at least one of these units. See an excercise at : th-cam.com/video/7lqNZOsOrQM/w-d-xo.html
Клин который вставляется в палец при сборке переезда через трубу, он за сто фиксируется то? Там же нет ничего, он просто в воздухе висит?
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Посмотрел бы я как этот водяной кунг, как бы он поработал в сибирскую минусяру, пока все разложат, так и все и сгорит, а что сгорит, то не сгниет...
Awesome equipment.
The title should read "This is why you pay a 20% VAT"
Ok....why
You set it up and by the time it’s set up the fire your putting out has gone out by it’s self
With the ramps to go over the hose definitely. Judging that it took like 3 minutes on the video, depending on how close the vehicle itself is, we're talking like 15-20 minutes set up time to pull everything out, carry it over, and bolt it in.
As someone else commented earlier. This is not for a small house fire. Its for something like a wild fire.
if we took that long to get water our chief would be on our ass and we would have to do it again and again and again.
So while we use a comparabel system in Germany it's basicly like this: ~One hour after calling these units you have a stable water supply. During this hour a water supply is already established! But in addition to this you have now these units delivering a good amount of water, which you can be pretty sure is stable and a High amount of water (spoken for European standards).
Tldr: this isnt the first supply line its an additional supply line.
This is probably for an extended/oversized/industrial/wildland fire. Hope they have massive amounts of manpower to roll the hose back. Don't look like fun.
@@markpang8847 exactly! Rolling these hoses isnt a problem with our system at least, it's electrically pulled up while driven the route back
you are aware that the primary Engines, Rescue Engines and Tankers can flow water within less than 30 seconds with no hurry at all?
@@TheGhostOfDefi They use a hydraulic or electric driven Hose Recovery Unit (HRU) for that purpose.
I've watched municipal departments take that long to set up one engine to flow water from a swimming pool! If they didn't have municipal systems and hydrants, they were back to square ont.
Being able to flow up to 14,000 gpm a swimming pool would be empty in no time and a hydrant system can hardly provide that amount of water; These systems are usually used alongside rivers and canals
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Вы не поняли маленько, это плановая тренирова/профилактика по наполнению прудов водой во время засухи. Так как мелкие водоёмы высыхают изза отсутвия осадков таким образом в Германии пожарные части их заполняют
@@Wolframcarbid85 с трудом верится. Так как там насоса как такового нет. Бандура почти контейнер занимает а еле качает. У меня шахтный насос 60кубовый 3 кВт по серьёзней будет.
The part that goes in the water should be remote drivable i think, hell put it on an arm like a concrete pumper. Then personnel doesn't have to go near the source and possibly get hurt with that much weight.
Nice equipament.
about those ramps to drive over the black hose----those single safety pins in the middle of the connecting pins --how do they keep the pins from moving so they do not shake out of the ramp sections? why don't the big pins have a flange on one end, and the safety pin goes on the other end ?
I was wondering the same thing.
The pin locates in a central hole on the ramp
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Good technology
Only if the US west coast had something like this... No, wait, NM, they can burn to the ground.
Lmao, this would be useful in CA anyway, planes are the main defense here.
California can use this for forest fires
Really cool!
All of that just to find out the water wasn't on fire
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It seems like a lot of work
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Does anyone understand how that safety pin helps?
Yes. It locates in a hole in a lug on the ramp to stop sideway movement either way
ich weis ja nicht wie alt das Video ist, aber eines sollte heutzutage klar sein, wenig manpower, viel Leistung sollte das ziel sein. 4 Mann zum aufbau einer solchen Wasserversorgung sind sicherlich nicht viel, aber die ganzen kleinen Schrauben, sowas geht garnicht. das muss mit 5mm Dreck drauf selbstständig verriegeln und somit binnen kürzerer Zeit einsatzbereit sein. so gefummeln mit so kleinen Schrauben die im ernstfall verloren gehen, geht garnicht, schon garnicht dann auch noch mit Handschuhen.
Wow happy I live where the fire fighters give a shit. Took long enough to get water to the rc tank sprayers. Way over engineered. But love there cars.
Even if its Complicated, its a kinda easy way for bringing almost 3000 gpm 7.5 Miles across... In addition: its used in situations that take longer for example Industrial fires
This is just a demonstration I'd imagine they are much much faster. But if you believe this is a real fire.....more power to ya
Well in a real life scenario if this would be available it wouldn't be first on scene you would have already engine and tankers on scene this comes as an addition later when the Chief thinks They need more water so basically it's cool yeah but never going to be standart they are already systems we use on Germany and their are working great
@@TheGhostOfDefi Hells Bells! Get a half way decent tanker shuttle going and you can supply several master streams. If the fire has gotten ahead, cut it off and concentrate on unburned side. For water movement 7.5 miles? The pressure it would take to do an effective relay pumping that distance is impracticle. Look at your fire district, pick an idustrial complex. Then pick a water source, your only water source, 7.5 miles away. You have to admit to yourself you would change your tactics.
@@Wa3ypx long story short: nope. Im a firefighter in Germany we use different tactics, we have different environmental factors and a different infrastructure, i think we can agree on that. As people sayed before, we use in Germany already a system which is comparable to this and it has prooven itself in major fires. These systems use low pressure high flow with just one pump.
пока всё это соберут,то и тушить нечего будет
Да ты прав, обычно все пожары небольшие 15 минут ,если следовать твоей логике.
Вы не поняли маленько, это плановая тренирова/профилактика по наполнению прудов водой во время засухи. Так как мелкие водоёмы высыхают изза отсутвия осадков таким образом в Германии пожарные части их заполняют
@@Wolframcarbid85а почему тогда просто не льют воду, зачем её распылять?
What is the run time before needing to refuel? Say 50% power for x amount of hours like with forest fires where your at it for days and having trucks come and fill there water holds
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That's a city size humidifier
Its a neat setup, but very limited usage. Would be ok in wildfire but wildfires move so fast by the time its setup it would either already be on fire or missed the fire entirely. Maybe massive multi alarm industrial fires that are remote(no Hydrants in the area) and also have a large body of water within 15km... but i cant see those being a common occurrence either...and even then if the fire is that large and remote its just going to be a let it burn scenario anyways as there is likely nothing left worth saving.
Unlikely it could be setup in time during a flooding scenario to make difference. Once the flood has happened the damage is done, there is no rush to quickly move the water again.
Its hard to imagine such a critical drinking water supply that would fail and needed that much volume in rapid response.
some wildfires don't move that fast; But yes it's basically for any extraordinary large fire scenario where big water supply is required and the hydrant network might not be able to supply that amount. Also for flood scenarios where you want to pump large amounts of water out of an area. Damage might be done already, but you don't want to keep the water in a low area for weeks or even months, and you don't want to tie dozens of relatively small fire apparatus with their average size hoses and pump capacities on such a scenario. Also that pumping might make the difference if further areas will be affected or not, if a dike withstands the pressure or not.
The USA already had the scenario that mutual aid had to come from abroad with high volume pumps to support local departments and crews in such a flood scenario