London Fire Brigade & Surrey Fire & Rescue Service

London Fire Brigade Hose Layer laying out hose at a fire at a hospital in Epsom while 2 surrey WrC go and replenish with water.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• Fire
• Appliance

[crazyror10]

How old is this vid???

[mab2311]

Its probably about 5 years old now.

[Firefighternorway]

Ah, I've always been curious about that Hose Layer, now, what does WrC stand for?

[mab2311]

WrC stands for Water Carrier

[mab2311]

Yeh cant be doing it much good really.

[kharris155]

does anyone know what epsom hospital this is and what was the incident. cheers

[huhtuesday]

ye not too sure but think the large volume hose is 125mm methinks !!

[mathiastheok]

Man...all I'd be thinking is having to re wind all that hose up....lol

[Firefighternorway]

I should have known that, thanks:)

[scally1288]

thats a surry ff in the rear of that pod cose lfb dont ware pbi gold kit

[p12bat]

we have a whole bunch of sizes, but if my maths is correct, not 5" to 6".

Most commomnly used is high pressure hose reel at 19mmm diameter, followed by a slightly larger 33mm.

Then lay flat hose 45mm, 70mm and 90mm.

In the last few years we have aquired 'large volume pumping' units which have massive hose, but as there is not one based at my station I couldn't tell you the size of it.