Centrifugal fire pumps long have been the backbone of pumping apparatus in the fire service because of their efficiency and their versatility. They come in various configurations, so departments must ...

Water application by firefighters is the foundation of firefighting. The American fire service has used water as the primary extinguishing agent since the beginning of bucket brigades, such as ...

Fig. 1. The minimum electrical requirements for installing fire pumps are found in Article 695. A general philosophy for most electrical installations is to provide ...

In the first installment of this three-part series of articles, featured in the August 2024 print issue and online, we discussed fire pump requirements along with Code-related references in the ...