Fun Day at Training Today

Apr 02, 2004 21:52

At the fire station, I've been spending the past couple weeks in Pump Training. This is where you learn how to operate the fire engines. So today was a practical day, where we take out the engines and go play. We were learning how to draft, which is basically pulling water from a static source (dump tanks, ponds, pools, etc ( Read more... )

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gregarious_lad April 16 2004, 01:09:28 UTC
So, roughly 800 gallons per minute starts shooting out the top of the engine, like a big geyser.

Ohhhh if only it was like that thing from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Water's funny and all, but not sudsy foam funny...

Bet it gave you some great crit ideas should you decide to code Geyser: "The pump guy Adan'f shadow mage stares resignedly at you as an enormous plume of water erupts from the ground, shooting him several dozen feet in the air"

Good times, good times =)

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