We've been doing this work a long time...23 years under the GBW Associates, LLC moniker....a bunch of years prior to that with no moniker. July 1984 had us in Nikiski, Alaska with Larry Davis and Chief Billy Harris working on hauling big water for the folks on the Kenai Peninsula. Several, large industrial complexes populated the area and the need for alternative fire protection water supplies was critical. Chief Harris lead the way in many improvements in this part of Alaska and his work at the Nikiski FD was at the forefront in many aspects.

The photos in this story show some tanker loading operations at a fire pump/well house at a local industrial plant. We don't recall the size of the fire pump but it was huge (maybe 2500 gpm at 165 psi) and it loaded tankers really, really fast....probably too fast. We separated the liners on several sections of fill hose coming off the pump house connection!

Regardless, the week spent in Nikiski was awesome and a lot of hard work got done and plenty of things were confirmed and learned. The folks were successful in achieving a 1,000 gpm tanker shuttle operation using the ISO 2-hour drill - which was really the first success at this flow rate of its kind anywhere.