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Knight Division TacticalDoes KDT provide portable fire pumps, hose and fold-a-tanks?
Portable Fire Pumps, Hose & Fold-a-Tanks
Yes.
KDT provides portable fire pumps, wildland hose and fold-a-tanks, high-pressure and volume pumps, 1½ in and 1 in hose, fittings and portable tanks, delivered with crews to set up and run them.
Typical configuration
- High-pressure pumps
- Portable 2-stroke or 4-stroke, high head pressure for long uphill lays
- Volume pumps
- Floating and centrifugal pumps for filling tanks and drafting
- Hose
- 1½ in and 1 in lined wildland hose in 100 ft lengths, plus ¾ in mop-up hose
- Fittings
- Gated wyes, tees, reducers, nozzles, check valves, NH and NPSH threads
- Fold-a-tanks
- About 1,000–3,000+ gal collapsible portable tanks
- Slip-on units
- About 50–300 gal tank and pump skids for pickups and UTVs
A lot of wildland water work doesn't use an engine at all. A portable pump drafts from a creek, pond or fold-a-tank and pushes water up a hill through a progressive hose lay to the crews on the line. Fold-a-tanks are collapsible tanks that set up in minutes as a water point, a dip site for helicopters or a fill station for engines and tenders.
On federal fires, most pumps, hose, fittings and folding tanks come from the NFES cache system, and incidents rent self-standing water storage tanks (Tank, Portable) by the gallon size they need. KDT supplies the pumps, hose, fittings and tanks, and the crews to set up and run a water system, where the incident orders them from a vendor. That includes high-pressure pumps for long uphill lays, volume pumps for filling tanks, slip-on units that turn a pickup or UTV into a small engine, and the hose and appliances to tie it together.
Available as
- High-pressure portable fire pumps
- Floating and volume pumps
- Hose packs and progressive hose lay kits
- Fold-a-tanks and portable water tanks
- Slip-on and skid units for pickups and UTVs
What's included
- Delivery to the incident or a drop point
- Setup of pump sites, hose lays and water points
- Pump fuel, oil and maintenance
- Hose and fitting resupply
- Pickup, hose wash and demob
Where it's used
- Progressive hose lays on steep line
- Water points and helicopter dip sites
- Engine and tender fill stations
- Mop-up and sprinkler systems
Questions, answered.
Does KDT provide portable fire pumps, hose and fold-a-tanks?
Yes. We supply high-pressure and volume portable pumps, wildland hose and fittings and fold-a-tanks, with crews to set up and run them.
What size fold-a-tank do I need?
Common sizes run about 1,000 to 3,000+ gallons. A tender drop site or helicopter dip site usually wants a larger tank; a pump site on the line can use a smaller one.
What hose sizes do you supply?
Standard wildland hose in 1½ in and 1 in, in 100 ft lengths, plus ¾ in mop-up hose and the wyes, reducers and nozzles to build a lay.
Need it on your incident? Say the word.
Add it to your request with anything else you need, then send it all at once. We'll come back with what we can put where, and when.