The fire department is testing all their fire hoses behind the Albany Civic Center. All 12 miles of it. Each truck carries 2500 feet of hose. Each station is equipped with about one mile of hose, ...

As with any maintenance requirement, the intent of small hose inspection and testing is to ensure that they will reliably operate properly when called upon, which is even more critical for emergency ...

The old saying, "putting the wet stuff on the red stuff" has built into it the huge assumption that the "wet stuff" will exit the nozzle with enough pressure to protect firefighters while ...

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CONSUMER REPORTS - Who wouldn't want a garden hose that's lightweight, expandable, and never kinks? But when those supposedly easy-to-use hoses were introduced a few years ago, most of the user ...

Indianapolis - Two Franklin Township firefighters were injured in a hose testing exercise Thursday morning. Sean Schembra, 29, was struck in the head by a broken coupling. Justin Goff, also 29, ...

The constant request to cycle test hoses with more challenging variables has led aerospace and automotive industries to fully implement test stands that run impulse testing simultaneous with a ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German tyre and automotive parts maker Continental on Monday reported shortcomings in the testing of industrial hoses at its ContiTech site in Korbach in the state of Hesse. There ...