What Type Of Nozzle In LA Brush Fire Photos?

[Guest]

I saw these photos on LAFirePhotos.com from the link on EMTBravo.com.

What type of nozzle is this firefighter using in this photo??

http://www.lafirephotos.com/incidents/2006...ture060copy.jpg

I've never seen anything like it.

Great photos by the way, looks like a tough fight with some pricey real estate nearby.

[201/65 94]

looks to me like its just a gated wye, with a nozzle on one end and a hose on the other, seems logical, instead of having 10 handlines running up a hill u have 1 or 2 with a bunch of nozzles covering a large area.

[Firefighter57 0]

I Think you've got it 201. just a wye with a nozzle. Now what i though you were going to ask is what kind of nozzle is THIS....

http://www.lafirephotos.com/incidents/2006...ture078copy.jpg

is it just a long nozzle or some kind or brush nozzle or is it just fooling my eyes

Edited July 26, 2006 by Firefighter57

[Guest jblazing56]

i copy the picture and took a closer look it looks like a wyne but it also looks llike a nozzle. I am not sure what kind but i can be sure its not a wyne. it some type of nozzle.

[houlidsa 76]

this is an easy one, however not sure of the exact model. That is a TFT VITG nozzle which is a valve integrated tip, for lack of better description an itegrated smooth bore in the shutoff and a low pressure automatic tip. It looks like they were using the hose and used the VITG to "break & extend" the line then putting the gated why on the end of the business end of the VITG and most like not wanting to be out of the game he attached the automatic tip to the second outlet on the wye. If you haven't used one of these try them they are the cat's tail. check out www.tft.com I know this nozzle is a special low pressue because of the orange color on the band, but check out the Phoenix Tip and the CAFS Foam delivery nozzle. Both hot stuff and very similar to the one in the pic.

[Ladder44 73]

Wont it be hard to manuver the hose/nozze???

[IzzyEng4 427]

A wye with two feeders and an adapter with one wye with a nozzle. I can make one of those at my house.