Lessons in Fire Hydraulics - 148pp Book with formulas Quick Reference

4th Printing of the Book;

 "Lessons in Wildland fire Hydraulics & Formulas".

The Book has been Updated, Revised and Edited. 

This book focuses on teaching folks how to move water in the wildland fire environment far beyond their S-211 and PMS-419 courses.

Now Covers:

Bambi Bucket cooling capacities for every bucket made, this is included in the Q-Ref section on page 143.

Includes a section on Fire Behavior Nomograms(1), that explains how nomograms are used to determine a fires intensity in Btu. This section is absolutely vital to understand how thermal intensity is determined. If you cannot determine fire intensity you will not be able to determine how much cooling you need to bring to the fire or how much fuel to remove, etc.  This is a section on fire thermodynamics that is simply not taught anywhere in the wildland fire training programs!

The Book Covers 14 lessons + includes the 32 pages of the Quick Reference Guide in one.

1. Lessons 1 & 2 cover Properties of Water and Calculating Heat Generation & Absorption.
2. Lessons 3 & 4 cover Centrifugal Pumps and Rules of Thumb.
3. Lessons 5 & 6 cover Pump Pressure Calculation and Head Pressure determination.
4. Lessons 7 & 8 cover Nozzle Pressures & Affinity Laws and the Fire Slide Rule use.
5. Lessons 9 & 10 cover Friction Losses for simple and Progressive Hose lays.
6. Lesson 11 is 11 pages and is dedicated solely to Drafting Principles and covers the technical elements that allow us to draft water to which many are simply NEVER taught. You will Never worry about being able to draft water again!
7. Lessons 12 - 14 cover Relay Pumping Operations, What your watchouts will likely be and how to plan for them. These lessons cover the 7 principle areas that must be considered before designing a relay operation, including showing you how to calculate the number of engines required for a relay as well as how to determine the spacing between each engine. However, the Relay Pumping system is nearly almost always either under or never utilized in the wildland fire service!

Quick Reference has formuals for the Following:

Click on the images to view the topics & Formulas covered!

Book Features:

130lb Satin Covers (old version was 100lb sating covers).

100lb Satin Pages (old version was 80lb sating pages).

Referenced page numbers are updated to correspond to the Q-Ref(Quick Reference) within the book itself instead the stand alone publication.

You Do NOT need to purchase the stand alone Quick Reference if you are buying this product as it is included.

5.5" wide by 8.5" tall. Book is Wire bound and Color Printed.

(1) Nomograms are a pictorial representation of a complex mathematical formulas that allows users to easily and quickly calculate and make estimations that would otherwise be too time consuming or imparctical or nearly impossible in the field.