Motor Pump Operator training

[Guest]

I've started training in my company to be an MPO as we call it down here on long island. I cant seem to find a handbook or anything on the topic of training that sums up and teaches the basics in a down to earth way. I asked this question to one of our chauffers and all I got in response was a binder from the county course which was outdated and too general.

Can anyone point me in the right direction to a text thats easy to read and to the point?

[TRUCK6018 50]

I would try the "Pumping Apparatus Driver/Operator Handbook from IFSTA. It can be found at the IFSTA website.

[Guest alsfirefighter]

Contact the NYS academy of fire science in montour falls, you can find the website through google, unfortunately I don't have time to list it. Ask them if you can get a copy of the student manual for the Apparatus Operator-Pump course.

I don't know what you mean by easy to read and to the point, but when it comes to pump operations, the knowledge of the components involved, and water hydraulics, nothing is easy to read and all of it is to the point. You need to know how and why water moves, what your gonna use to get that, whether you think you'll have to draft or not..you never know water systems do fail, and how to caluclate friction loss, no matter who tells you what. You never know when you might have a funky lay or multi line lay that you will have to fall back on that.

[Guest]

no drafting down here, but i get the point

thanks for the help