Fire Truck Week: Some airport fire appliances are equipped with a penetrating nozzle

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Fact of the Day, day day day, day do.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Dud do. It really took that out of my lungs.
I wasn't ready for that big night for you. But
she is starting a crash. I can see it in
the iron. Yep, she said an hour and a half
sleep after iron, you've.

Speaker 3 (00:24):
Been at work for nearly Yeah, we've been at work
for twice as long as you slept.

Speaker 2 (00:31):
Don't give me the numbers. I feel fine. I run
some numbers for you. Well.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
This week at Fact of the Day, it's all about
fire trucks, fire appliances.

Speaker 4 (00:38):
Sorry because tomorrow, this time tomorrow will be broadcasting No,
not sorry, this time Thursday, leaving tomorrow, but this time
Thursday will be live from the Hawks Bay Airport for
the naming ceremony of the new fire truck. And we
did put our weight behind the voting for Dame Judy Drench.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
We're hoping that that comes through.

Speaker 5 (00:57):
I'm also hoping that today vaun A Fletch, if we
just have a private conversation, I hope formed some fact
checked his own fact, because they gave a fact and.

Speaker 2 (01:04):
It wasn't true.

Speaker 5 (01:05):
We had all these firefighters texting and it was incredibly embarrassed.

Speaker 3 (01:08):
I heard from some firefighters give us on my own accounts,
and they said they were listening to the podcast and saying, hey,
that's not quite right. And then oh, I see a
firefighters joined you and made some corrections. Just appreciate hearing
about our service. That was the general. Nice, That was
the general. Yeah, thank you for your service.

Speaker 5 (01:24):
Yea, a fire truck said, I slowed down according lane.
Just have a look at a fire truck or a
fire engine.

Speaker 2 (01:29):
That's the same thing. Was it a one or a
seven or four? I think we clarified.

Speaker 3 (01:37):
Today specifically about airport crashed tenders.

Speaker 4 (01:41):
That's what the airport fire trucks are called, airport crashed
chicken tenders. I guess because they tend to the crash.
Otherwise I was an airport fire appliants, And are you
going to deal with why there's so much sixier than
normal fire engines or trucks or whatever you call it.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, what dealing with one sexy aspect okay of the
And I will be very interested to see when we
go to the airport and if this you are yet
to be named fire tender.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
Fire appliance has a penetrating schnozzle a penetrating Some airport
tenders element elevated. Can you stop calling it a tender,
because now all I can think about is check tenders.

Speaker 4 (02:34):
Fire appliances have an elevator, but that makes it sound
like a kettle or a toaster, you know. Yeah, just
call it an airport firetruck and some airport fire that's
not though.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
So here we go, here we go, here is with
bs fast.

Speaker 3 (02:52):
Some airport fire appliances have an elevated extending elevated extended
extinguishing arm capable of of raising the foam or the
water that it shoots fom out about twenty meters.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
Oh wow, okay, then.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Some some can then puncture superficial structure, such as an
airplane fuselage to extinguish internal fires using a reinforced nozzle.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
Would you puncture a window or the fuselage? I don't know.
It's going to be easier to just puncture the window.
There's the fuselage.

Speaker 3 (03:28):
Okay, the window was part of the fuselage, remember the
in for the window. But they just apparently will just
drive it if the fire is internal, and they can just.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
The nozzle and it goes through charge it and they
hit the schnozzle.

Speaker 3 (03:40):
And then the foam up and then they can find
or water out whatever they decide to pump into the cabin.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
The fire might be in the cargo.

Speaker 3 (03:48):
Area at the fire and there, so they'll puncture it
in there.

Speaker 5 (03:51):
And they decipher whether to use. You probably won't know
this because you don't know your own. You don't really
much about fire trucks. How do they decide foam or water.

Speaker 2 (04:04):
The type of fire? I think it depends if it's
a fat if you're cooking chips.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
We wouldn't put water on a fuel fire, would you,
because it would only make it worse than if the
farmers for the fuel fire?

Speaker 2 (04:14):
Right?

Speaker 3 (04:15):
But if what are lithium batteries? If one of those
goes up, how do you best to put those out?

Speaker 5 (04:21):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (04:21):
You're the fact man.

Speaker 3 (04:22):
You haven't looked into anything more than that. Some of
them are equipped with a penetrating schnozzle. Okay, okay, so
they can drive up to the plane and be like
puncher extinguish hopefully Well, they might be off or they
might be in. But would you rather be wet or
did or covered? Cove on fire like a rad early

(04:44):
two thousands phone party? Or did yeah be covered to
fine convenience to be hit rather than did shots.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Part.

Speaker 3 (04:58):
Yeah, as you slide down the slide, okay, great, give
you a yellow shot.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Okay great, And you have to get your finger in
because it was in a little plastic cup. Yeah, it
doesn't come out as much, it doesn't suck out like that,
and you try to tongue it out, but.

Speaker 3 (05:09):
Yeah, and then too much jelatine and it's weirdly the
top of those little plastic disposable shot cups are always
a little bit sharpe.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Got your tongue in there. Yeah, you know, you need
to be careful.

Speaker 5 (05:20):
You've got to be very careful injury world out there.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
That's it's so difficult.

Speaker 3 (05:26):
Today's fact of the day is that some airport fire
appliances are equipped with a penetrating schnozzle.