Last weekend, folks from multiple departments in southern Onondaga county, NY got together to learn about moving big water on wheels. Students were exposed to new concepts such as drafting through multiple hard sleeves, utilizing all available room on a road by placing dump tanks in front of a pumper, and filling tankers via an open relay utilizing several different eductor style water movers...including ... (Full Story & Photos)

On April 27th, around 40 folks from Kent County and surrounding areas (Kentucky also) worked hard to haul water with tankers for 2-hours uninterrupted. The drill was the culmination of our 16-hr Rural Water Supply Operation Seminar that was sponsored by the Kent County Fire Chiefs Association and hosted by the Chestertown VFD. The goal of the drill was to try and run a rural hitch operation for the ... (Full Story & Photos)

Earlier this month we finished up another bridge-mount dry fire hydrant installation in Vermont. This time it was on River Road in the Town of Duxbury. The Vermont Rural Fire Protection Task Force through the Vermont Association of Conservation Districts (VACD) provided assistance to the Waterbury Fire Department in developing a plan to improve water supply in Duxbury. The Vermont Legislature approved ... (Full Story & Photos)

After fighting off several months of snow and frigid temperatures we were able to complete our installation of a bridge-mount dry fire hydrant on Cardin Road in Champlain, NY. The Champlain Fire District and the Town of Champlain have done an excellent job of assessing their fire protection water supply needs....especially their drafting and dry fire hydrant locations. The Cardin Road dry fire hydrant ... (Full Story & Photos)

On April 5th and 6th more than 80 folks from three Maryland counties got together to review the best practices of hauling water with tankers. The focus of our 16-hr Rural Water Supply Operations seminar was applying the best practices of hauling water while following the Carroll County SOP on structural firefighting. The 2-hr drill on Sunday was designed so that the first half of the drill would ... (Full Story & Photos)

No rocket science here. There are number of appliances that can be used to make a "rural hitch" operation work. The clappered ones tend to work best as no human is needed to open a control valve. At our seminar last month in Iowa, a 5" Storz x 2-1/2" NH 3-way clappered siamese was used to support the rural hitch operation that supplied water to an attack engine 650 feet away. The device worked just ... (Full Story & Photos)

On March 22nd (2025) more than 40 folks from Floyd County and surrounding areas got together in 20-degree weather to haul and pump water for two-hours, uninterrupted. The drill culminated our 16-hr Rural Water Supply Operations Seminar that was hosted by the Floyd Community Volunteer Fire Department and sponsored in part by the Quad County Firefighters Association. Participants spent Thursday and ... (Full Story & Photos)

While looking through some photos from our 2021 seminar in Floyd, Iowa we came across this one showing dump site operations. The photo was taken about 60-minutes into the drill and does a nice job of showing water being dumped and transferred to the blue dump tank - which was the primary dump tank from which the dump site pumper drafted. The tanker dumping off the rear could only dump off the rear, ... (Full Story & Photos)