Members of the Hays Fire Department are in the second day of training on the top floor of the downtown Emprise Bank building.

Crews are practicing procedures to attack a fire in a multistory building.

Large and tall buildings, such as the six-story bank building,  are equipped with built-in water mains supplying interior “fire hydrants, ” according to Lieutenant Ryan Hagans.

“We hook-up a two-and-a-half inch line outside and an additional attack crew takes 150 foot of hose inside, hooks it up to the inside hydrant and then stretches the hose throughout the building,” he explains.

The firefighters use the fire exit stairs, and have to estimate the reach of the hose and its proper deployment and management on an upper floor.

Business is going on as usual at Emprise Bank and the other building tenants during the drill.  “When we don’t have access to a multistory building,” says Hagans, “we have training props at the station for practices several times a year.”

The third and final training starts at 9a.m. Friday.

 

 

 

 

2.5 in line at fire truck with 150′ of house stretch across building

 

use training props