Sometimes a fire erupts in a tight place–a vehicle, a basement, a crowded garage full of poisonous fumes. In fact, sometimes a fire is behind a door that’s hard to get to. It can take valuable time to pry one’s way inside. It would be great to poke a hole and get some water on that fire as quickly as possible rather than struggle with the door.
Your Fire Department recently added a “piercing nozzle” to its toolset. A piercing nozzle is much like a large steel spike designed to be rammed through a wall or door–even a car door, and inject water into the space beyond it.
There are numerous uses for the piercing nozzle besides house fires. They include car fires in the trunk or under the hood, wild land where fires are in the root system, and fires up in the eaves of a house or trailer. See the photos below of the piercing nozzle in use during a training session.
