Kelci McKendrick
Enid News＆Eagle，俄克拉荷马州。
（MCT）
5月15日 - 当艾尼德（Enid）的消防员对报告大火或烟雾的电话做出反应时，可能会很重要。
Because a fire could’ve already grown exponentially once first responders from Enid Fire Department arrive, they need to know how much flow of water is within nearby fire hydrants, said new EFD Chief Jason Currier.
This year, while conducting annual flow tests at the more than 2,600 hydrants within the city of Enid, EFD began placing reflective, plastic rings on the hydrants to show how many gallons per minute (GPM) of water flowed from them.
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库里尔说：“当有人看到（大火）时，它已经真正了。”“我们花时间到达那里并设置，而不必担心找到另一个消防栓可以节省我们很多时间。…我们知道对消防栓的期望。”
Each spring, EFD breaks the city’s fire hydrants into assignments to measure the static pressure, flow pressure and residual pressure to determine how many GPM firefighters can get from them.
Currier说，进行流程测试，可帮助居民具有更好的水质；帮助埃尼德市的水部门确定任何麻烦领域；并帮助EFD评估消防员如何有效地使用其系统。
在进行了过去的流程测试之后，EFD会将引擎盖或最高部分绘制出一种特定的颜色，以显示第一回应可提供多少gpm。
Light blue bonnets indicated there were 1,500 or more GPM inside the hydrant; green indicated between 1,000 and 1,499 GPM; orange bonnets, 500 to 999 GPM; and red bonnets, less than 500 GPM.
库里尔说，重新粉刷数百个消防栓会增加人力，因此，在过去的春季，EFD在工作人员讨论了更好地表明来自消防栓的水流的方法之后，实施了一项新计划，以替换戒指，同时保持符合国家消防协会。
来自消防栓的水流取决于水主线的大小以及供水是否来自一个方向或两个方向。
恩尼德消防元帅肯尼斯·赫尔姆斯（Kenneth Helms）表示，如果水主线上的阀门在维护后，水路上的一个阀不会返回，并且在主线上进行维修，则水流可能会发生变化。
“When we go back and do the flow tests, all of a sudden, that hydrant that flowed 2,000 gallons per minute last year — we’re only getting 1,200 gallons per minute out of this year,” Helms said.
如果在将来的流动测试期间水流变化，则在整个过程中将更换环。
柯里尔说：“现在，我们可以花时间进行培训和为社区服务的事情。”
塑料环是暂定预算计划的消防官员必须在下一个财政年度进一步的运营。
将被批准week, EFD is requesting the city of Enid increase its training budget for the 2022-2023 fiscal year, which begins July 1.
Currier表示，在过去的十年中，由于其他消防部门的需求，EFD的培训预算每年保持20,000至25,000美元。今年提议的113％增长将达到42,500美元。
关于15 firefighters out of EFD’s 79 uniformed staff have been trained in specialized classes such as high-angle rope rescue, but Currier said he believed it’s time to focus on making available that “next-level training” to more firefighters.
EFD, whose staff have to meet a certain number of training hours every year, hosts as many in-house training classes as possible, but classes, conferences and seminars by different organizations come with their own costs such as travel and lodging.
Currier说：“我觉得这已经到了现在我们需要回到过去的地方 - 参加高级培训课程。”“通过提高培训预算，我们希望将这一扩展到15个人之上。”
The department also plans to replace a 15-year-old fire rescue truck, which Currier said has been having mechanical issues and has had other repairs done to it. EFD also acquired two new fire trucks last summer.
A new truck would cost $780,000, according to the budget.
“To go and fix that truck would not be cost-effective. It would be about half the cost of a new vehicle,” Currier said. “Just like at home, you evaluate that — if it’s still worth kicking the can down the road, but that’s one of our highest priorities as far as vehicle replacement right now.”
EFD also proposed switching to Lexipol software, which would provide customizable, state-specific fire service policies that are kept updated with any new state and federal laws and court decisions.
Currier said all of EFD’s standard operating procedures are individual documents on a main drive on a computer that staff have to sort through to find.
Currier说：“该软件将帮助我们创建所有这些规则，法规和标准操作程序的可搜索数据库，并将其分配给所有人在基于应用程序的平台上。”“我们有充分的责任，每个人都有规则。…这将是每个人都在手掌上拥有的东西。”
McKendrick是Enid News＆Eagle的警察和法院记者。
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