It's Risky to be without a SpeedSwivel
Chapter-1: Botched FDC installations & repairs, (incompatible fire hose threads)
BOTCHED: (1 of 9 ) ALL snoots were stolen by brass thieves. High-Rise apartments with 100's of tenants. Repairs are urgent & fire watch is mandatory.
BOTCHED: (2 of 9) Contractor botched the repair. These wheeled discharge outlets are for Standpipe stair landings. (Not FDC ports)
BOTCHED: (3 of 9) Contractor removed the discharge outlets and replaced them with snoots that have NO clappers. This FDC requires clappered snoots.
BOTCHED: (4 of 9) This FDC manifold requires snoots with HINGED CLAPPERS. There are no hinges or clappers on these snoots. Pump operators nightmare.
LESSON: (4 of 6) The SpeedSwivel is hooked up on the far left, and pumping an FDC at the Los Vegas Riviera hotel-casino. (17 floors.)
LESSON: (6 of 9) The Las Vegas pumper has a discharge pressure of 310 psi. SpeedSwivel is holding perfectly without any leaks or problems.
Snoots with Hinged Clappers
LESSON: (7 of 9) This is an FDC snoot with a HINGED CLAPPER. When multiple snoots are installed on the same FDC manifold, each snoot needs a clapper.
LESSON: (8 of 9) Do you see the hinged clappers? Clappers allow a pump operator to hook-up or shut down a single hose without shutting everything down
LESSON: (9 of 9) This dept. allows NST swivels & knox locks, but, has a special thread on their fire hose. Four hose adapters needed to support FDC.
LESSON: (1 of 3) Pre-plan for stolen brass swivels. Always have an alternate plan. A SpeedSwivel is an action plan Put one on your inventory.
LESSON: (2 of 3) It's risky to be without a SpeedSwivel on every engine crew inventory. Call for a quote.
LESSON: (3 of 3) SpeedSwivel FDC Adapter
CHAPTER 3: Brass theft at the Days Inn
LESSON: (1 of 5 ) Sta-9 called me out (Car-99) 6 a.m.,check standpipes at Days-Inn 502 W. Camelback. 125 rooms, 6 floors, not-vacant. Next pic.
LESSON: (2 of 5 ) Code approved dry standpipes from (50's-60's) . Two stairwells 6 floors, 12 standpipe outlets with wheeled shut-offs were all stolen
LESSON: ( 3 of 5) Brass thieves have stolen the entire wheeled standpipe discharge FDC outlets from 12 hotel stair landings.
LESSON: (4 of 5) All the FDC's on the exterrior of this hotel were also stolen by brass thieves.
LESSON: (5 of 5) Crews anxious and ready to fight fire. Incompatible hose threads are always a surprise. Have an alternate plan & water supply.
Chapter 4: DOUBLE FEMALE ON A DRY STANDPIPE DISCHARGE VALVE OUTLET.
BURNED: (1 of 2) Flames & 6-7-8 fl-hotel exposure. My crew E-9-B stretched off standpipe to fire & (E-5), J.Ostaff used double female on 2nd Fl.,SP.
BURNED: (2 of 2) This is station 9 B shift , Phoenix Fire Department. This is what a GREAT crew looks like. Nice Job on this office fire.
CHAPTER 5: NOT SHUT OFF CUT OFF
LESSON LEARNED: (1 of 3) Fire Crews are now finding BRASS STEMS cut off at the control wheel. NOT SHUT BUT CUT.
LESSON : (2 of 3) A closer look at a vandalized O-S-& Y valve that has a stolen brass stem. Cut off at the wheel for the brass value.
LESSON: (3 of 3) "NECESSITY IS THE MOTHER OF INVENTION" A sleeve now sold to deture thieves rom cutting brass stems. Visible stem indicates open stem
CHAPTER 6: BOTCHED STANDPIPE FDC ON CONDO's
BOTCHED: (1 of 4) This standpipe FDC supplies all the fire protection systems. Threaded plastic caps are pounded on. UNBELIEVABLE, 4 story condos !!
BOTCHED : (2of 4) The Brass swivels on this FDC were stolen. Plastic CAPS are pounded onto the Standpipe FDC? Muti-fam, 4-5 story condo's downtown.
BOTCHED: (3 of 4) Red Threaded caps like these are sometimes used on stairwell standpipe outlets instead of brass threaded caps. NEVER forTHIS!
SPEEDSWIVEL to the rescue: ( 4 of 4) A SpeedSwivel is the ONLY adapter that will get the job done when swivels have been stolen from an FDC.
CHAPTER 6: BOTCHED FDC INSTALLATIONS
BOTCHED: (1 of 2) Side by side FDC's are not good. A Contractor's error that should not have been approved. GREEN KNOX LOCKS ARE PHOENIX.
PERFECT INSTALL: (2 of 2 ) This FDC stacked arrangement will work very well. This FDC was recently replaced after a theft.....top one much newer.
CHAPTER 7: The "MORE" Button is a Menu: The Feature Article is about an Arizona fire that killed 29 (in-part) because of incompatible hose threads. In
BURNED: (1 of 2) The Featured Article about Pioneer Hotel "MORE" button. Dan Faucett & myself pulled a lady from a bedroom house fire. Unconscious.
LESSON: (2 of 2) Hospital Standpipe & pressure reducing device/PRD testing: Great Video (CLICK THE MORE BUTTON) This photo is the Phoenix Fire Dept.
Photo Gallery
BURNED: (3 of 3) Collin Dewitt and myself carry one of many victims overcome by (unknown) odor in a federal building DT Phoenix.