Fire Department Hydraulics, 3rd edition

For courses in fire protection hydraulics, water supply, and fire technology; and for working fire department professionals studying to become drivers, operators, or engineers.

Now in full color throughout, this extensively updated text provides a complete foundation in fire department hydraulics, explaining how and why water is discharged from nozzles at the correct pressures to effectively fight fires. One step at a time, it clearly explains key concepts including the weight of water, friction loss within hoselines, characteristics of municipal water supplies, delivery of water to handlines and master streams, and much more. This edition’s many improvements include: new full color diagrams, tables and photos; new safety alerts based on NFFF’s life-safety initiatives; coverage of new tank shapes, containers, hoses, testing, and deck gun calculations; more effective organization; and extensive new web-based study resources.

Hallmark Features

Helps firefighters effectively master all aspects of fire department hydraulics. Offers a proven step-by-step process for building knowledge; introduces key principles and formulas in a well-organized, incremental, and systematic fashion.

Supports intuitive and visual learning. Presents many key concepts with diagrams, tables, and photographs that make learning easier, and can serve as a useful reference.

Links concepts and theory to “in the field” realities. Shows how to use formulas to provide the proper pressures and flows through hoselines, accounting for friction loss formulas and coefficients.

Ensures that firefighters understand the correct pressures for each nozzle and application. Covers pressures required for each nozzle used in today’s fire service, including both fog and smoothbore nozzles.

Helps firefighters check and confirm their mastery through realistic practice. Contains complete review tests at the end of nearly all chapters.

Text only. This product does NOT include a Resource Central Access Code Card. To purchase the text with a Resource Central Access Code Card, please use ISBN: 0-13-294873-7

Presents extensive new information in a brand-new four-color design with many new color images, figures, and diagrams; also supported with extensive new interactive resources on the web.

• Supports active learning with real-world examples 

New! Resource Central web site—offering extensive book-specific online resources for both students and instructors, including a basic math refresher course, all-new end-of-chapter tests, new case studies, and more

• Provides access to interactive, visual, and hands-on practice for faster learning and deeper mastery 

New! Safety Alert boxes— highlighting 16 life safety initiatives from the National Fallen Firefighter’s Foundation

• Reinforces key safety measures to ensure firefighters protect their lives and the lives of their colleagues so “Everyone Goes Home”  

Updated! Contains new coverage of tank shapes, containers, and hoses—including newer Large Diameter Hoses (LDH) that increase volume and reduce friction loss; also provides new review questions incorporating LDH for master stream appliances and in relay applications

• Prepares firefighters to effectively utilize current tanks, containers, and hoses 

Updated! Revised coverage of water supply and testing procedures—including new information on hydrant flow procedures, a new hydrant graph for estimating flows, and updated definitions reflecting National Fire Protection Agency (NFPA) terminology

• Helps students master current best practices for managing and testing water supplies 

Revised! Contains up-to-the-minute information on new nozzle types and their applications in fire attacks—including an innovative, simplified formula for nozzle reaction, and current figures covering horizontal and vertical factors

• Prepares firefighters to select and efficiently work with today’s most widely-used nozzles 

Updated and expanded! Modernized and expanded content on deck gun calculations—included in a complete chapter on Required Pump Discharge Pressure

• Helps firefighters accurately calculate discharge pressure, and thereby respond to fires more effectively

Expanded! Contains extended coverage on the latest pump test procedures and drafting operations—in the context of a full chapter on Pumps, Pump Accessories, and Drafting Operations

• Fully prepares firefighters to participate in modern pump testing and drafting operations 

Updated! Includes improved coverage of relay operations—incorporating new hose sizes

• Prepares students to accommodate a wider range of pumping scenarios