Nothing new here this week....just a friendly reminder regarding hose lays....primarily for the suburban and rural areas. We feel the best practice when laying out a bunch of supply hose is to leave some "stuff" at the start of the lay that will help other units that arrive complete the water supply set-up. This becomes really important when operating with mutual aid companies that carry different hose sizes and threads and...this also becomes really important when planning on executing a "rural hitch" with tankers. The yellow layout bag shown in this news story provides sufficient adaptors for 2-1/2" fittings, 4-inch Storz fittings, and 5-inch Storz fittings. Combined with some other small appliances and of course the double-clappered siamese on the 5-inch supply line, this rural pumper's layout cache pretty much guarantees the next arriving engine or tanker can complete the connection and send the water down the line.