Engineer Pump Time with Keith

Because I had all my bugs done and out of the way I decided that I could spend some time doing Engineer training with Bien. We were going to do pump training. We started by going to the tower and practicing taking hydrants. Once we got that down we went to the tower itself and set up the engine. We got a hydrant hooked up. We pumped to a FDC for a standpipe as well as a sprinkler. We got a hand line out and pumped to that. We also set up a street gun.

When we were practicing changing from tank water to hydrant water we blew an old rubber hose that lead from the discharge port to the drain valve. It was not a big deal, but we cannot use that discharge port until it gets fixed.

By the time we got everything cleaned up and put back in service it was just after six o’clock pm. We went to the station to help do rig checks with Williams. This was his first duty shift. We spent about two hours doing some Rescue drive time. Williams was getting his chance to get some time under his belt on Rescue. We started with dinner at Dairy Queen. We drove around the South West hill mostly, but we went elsewhere as well.

We did not get any calls for Williams. So just like my first time being on call, he didn’t get a chance to go on a call.