Bill Adkins

BILL ADKINS is a captain with the Loveland-Symmes (OH) Fire Department Training Division/Maintenance Division. He is on the Editorial Advisory Board for Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment.

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Water Delivery: the Chaffing Block

There are many ways this tool can be used. It is most beneficial when a single firefighter is trying to connect two pieces of 6-inch hard sleeve.

Equipment Features Hose

Patterson Creek Tanker 35 is mounted on a Frieghtliner 108SD Chassis. (Photos courtesy of Patterson Creek Fire Department)

Patterson Creek (WV) FD Adds Vacuum Tanker to Fleet

Vacuum tankers are not a new concept in rural water supply but are not well known in today’s fire service.

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