NEW EQUIPMENT TO FIGHT FOREST FIRES
-V., W FLL1 X"(fTOX, Jan. 5. Xew portable eipiipment whicli has" arrived in Xew Zealand for use by the Wtate iurest .Service in flghting forest (ires, was described by an otticer of the service today. The main • unit of equipment is a [iiiriq) powerod by a two-stroke engine which is earried knapsack fashion on a man's back. This pump can be used in anv stream, pond or tank and as it is of a centrifugal type, it will pump dirtv water. With the pump usually go two 400 feet lengths of hose which can bo fed out from the knapsack as fasr as a niiin can run. A packload of accessories completed the unit. ''Four men carrving this gear make a complete lire-fighting unit," the oflicer said, "and they can operate -in rough eountry where a wheeled vehicle woubl be useless. Tlie pump will (levelop a pressure of 2(10 lbs. tliough normally it uses 10() to 150 lbs. and wili pump 50 gallons of water per minute. It can be nsed to pump water th rough •i mile of hose and up a 300-foot hill and give a usealile jet of water at the end. ' ' Bix of tliese pumps, which were wide ly used in. Canada and the United States, had been distributed in tlie last two weeks and more were on order aua expected in about two. -rnonths, th« | oflicer added. ' *
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Chronicle (Levin), 6 January 1948, Page 5
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