Yukon Fire Department demonstrates 1 3/4-inch Minuteman hose-bundle deployment

Logan Furdick, a firefighter with the Yukon Fire Department, demonstrated how to deploy a 1 3/4-inch modified Minuteman hose bundle during a department training session. He showed both a reverse deployment and a forward deployment, detailing how firefighters should handle the bundle, flat load loop, straps, midpoints and nozzle position.

Furdick said the first step was to "grab the bundle section and place it on his shoulder," then reach with the opposite hand to "grab the loop of the flat loaded section" and begin deployment. He instructed firefighters to pull the loop until they "feel tension on the loop from the flat loaded section," then drop the loop and continue the bundle to the door.

At the door, Furdick demonstrated dropping the bundle "with the nozzle and coupling facing the door," then undoing the "three green straps." For the reverse deployment he directed firefighters to locate "the two midpoints identified by tape and pull the midpoints away from the door," taking care to "pull the midpoints back far enough to stretch out the line, but not so far to take the nozzle and the coupling away from the door." He said the firefighter should then return to the nozzle and, once at the door with the nozzle, "call for water."

For the forward deployment, Furdick again instructed firefighters to load the bundle on one shoulder, grab the flat-load loop with the opposite hand and pull until they "feel tension," then drop the bundle, undo the three green straps, "grab the nozzle and the coupling and advance them forward to the front door." He closed the demonstration by repeating that, once at the door, the firefighter should "call for water."

The session was instructional; no formal actions or policy decisions were taken.