UL’s Fire Safety Research Institute (FSRI) has released an all-new hands-on training toolkit focused on hose stream mechanics, giving fire departments an innovative new way to put research into practice. This toolkit is designed to facilitate realistic training and includes all the information needed to construct and utilize FSRI’s Hose Stream Prop – everything from prop designs, video demos, training lesson plans covering air entrainment principles in hose streams, and water distribution tactics in structures.
The idea for this innovative Hose Stream Prop was sparked when FSRI research studies began to yield thought-provoking findings around the fundamentals of hose stream mechanics – specifically air entrainment and water mapping. These concepts are the ground-level building blocks needed to understand the impact of varying suppression tactics on the fireground. From these findings, FSRI research engineers began by building a prototype training prop to visualize and interactively demonstrate these concepts. Read More…