Training Night: Dry Hydrants

Last night was training night. I rode along for the first time in many many years. Along with dry hydrant training was drivers training. We drove out to a pair of dry hydrants on an Amish farm pond north of town. A dry hydrant is basically a PVC pipe that runs underground into a pond or stream. In case of fire an engine would hook up their hard sleeve and draft or pump water out of the water source and either pump it straight to a fire or fill tankers that will take it to the fire. Along with this a driver-in-training got to operate the engine and it's pump and other members learned how to hook up to a dry hydrant and play with the deluge gun.