Join “Training to Perform Under Pressure” as Greg Payeur teaches you when to properly deploy a Water Can.

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  Let’s look at the water can itself. Give me an example of a time when you’re gonna take a water can into a working fire as opposed to a hose line. Offline, okay, so, uh, searching ahead of the line, and I can search ahead of the line for a couple options. Uh, searching ahead of the line, uh, in a large building and I’m running standbys, right?

Or in a high-rise situation, and I’m running that can ahead of the line to identify the seat of the fire, isolate it, and call for the stretch, and now I can call that in off that standby. I know where it’s at. That’s an example. What’s another reason you could do it? Fire alarm, right? So on a fire alarm, uh, I get an alarm investigation and I’m going in to check, and I’m gonna grab my water can and my irons and maybe a hook.

Is that what you guys take with you on an alarm investigation? Packed up, ready to go. Uh, in our area, we have universities, university kids who like to drink, and they get to drink a little bit too much. Um, and they get home about 2:30 in the morning, and then they throw something in the oven, and they pass out on the couch, and then we get called for a fire alarm. We get there and we’ve got a working apartment fire.

We go knock that down with the can real quick while we pull the drunk student outside, and then he, he’s at bag valve him for a little bit, then pop back up and you call it a day. Uh, we call that a drunk fries. Pretty common. Alarm investigations are a very common place where I would be in a position where I’m gonna have a water can and I’m gonna have to be delayed on getting a line.

What’s another situation? Ambulances. Your ambulance doesn’t have water on it, so you got water cans on it, right? So that’s a situation. So if you have a true truck, then you don’t have a water source other than the 2.5 gallon water can.

So if the rig you arrived on is an ambulance, a true truck, a battalion chief truck, or a personal vehicle, how many people are responding from helping? It could be a POV. If it’s any one of those things, when I get on scene, the only water source I have is the water can. Those are the two realms we’re gonna live in today. We show up and we are first on scene, and we’ve got a water can, and we’ve got a known victim, we can make a difference with that to facilitate a search, right? Or we got a fire alarm, we get caught, we’re gonna knock this thing down real quick, and then we’re gonna do a search on that side.