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Collins. Is he here, Chief Tom Collins of the New Haven Fire Department.
I believe he is in the back row, hiding somewhere. He is. one of the smartest
men in the Fire Service, and probably nobody gives, greater cooperation than
he and his boys do.
Tom, in your opinion, what do you think about this water fog, in place
of the straight stream?
CHml~ CoI~I~I~¢S: I was hiding in the back row so that .nobody would
know I was here!
Of course, we do a lot with water fog on fires in New Haven, and we think
we know its limitations.
But, as far as the prognosis of the straight nozzle goes, I think that yo.~.
will need both of them, and which one you need the most, I am not prepared
to say right now, because I think when you use them in combination, you have
an ideal situation, as far as fighting fires is concerned.
MoI3~ATOI~ Woo.l~l~Y: Thank you very much, Tom. Is. there anybody
else who wants to speak on this subject?.- If not, then I think that we can dispose
of it, because it really needs very little more enlightenment. Henry has
told us ’o£ the advantages of having the researches continued.
There is one thing that I would close with, which has not been thoroughly
explored in this country, and that is, in my opinion, the mission of the International,
plus Kyle Laughlin’s work in Washington, and I refer to the use of
large-scale, heavy duty fog, in the matter of fire defense. None of us know
too much about it.
In New York State, we h~ve played with it now for two years, and I had
the pleasure, in Westchester, o.f handling 76 engine companies, where we put
on a test, with fog, the idea being to find out how much o.f it we could deliver
over ladder pipes, and so on, and I was very happy to note that from four
areas, we were getting between 2,000 and 2,500 G. P. M. for discharge, off
the metal aerial ladder, about 60 per cent extended, and we combined
those, using heavy duty fog, we found, to our amazement, that we were wetting
down landscape up to 2,000 feet distance, and somewhere better than 100
£eet in the air.
That is a pattern 0f extinguishment, if you please, which, thus. far, I do
not believe has been explored beyond that point.
I think that we can well go £orward with it, and some day, we may find,
to our amazement, that heavy duty fog, combined especially with heavy duty
straight streams, impinging up into the air, will provide us with a fire defense
that we, heretofore, haven’t believed possible.
The next question, No. 3 and 3-A, I believe, can be answered; it is from
W. R.P. Here it is:
We have a two-way radio; where can we get the o~icial instructions for
operating our radio most e~iciently and cheap?
I believe that the answer to that could be given to you by any of the radio,
manufacturers with representatives, here, but I can also state, and I am very
happy to state that the National Board o£ Fire Underwriters and the Signal’
Men’s Association, as well as the N. F. P. A., the International Association o£
Fire Fighters, and the International Association of Fire Chiefs, have just approved
and have had the endorsement of the Federal Communications Commis.-
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