Portable pump trailer
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| Country: | Germany, Austria |
| Fire pump : | inserted portable pump |
| Portable pump : | PFPN 10-1000 (TS 8/8) |
| Perm. Total mass : | 1000 kilograms |
The portable fire pump trailer (TSA) is usually a single-axle, closed trailer of the fire brigade with a fire brigade load for a group (basically consisting of nine fire brigade members), in particular a portable fire pump, and is used in connection with the vehicles that transport the respective team.
tasks
Of course, the range of uses of a portable pump trailer is limited and a TSA is often only used as a supplement to other fire fighting vehicles. Nevertheless, the loading is very similar to that of a portable pump vehicle and therefore sufficient to carry out small assignments independently.
An initial fire-fighting attack can be started outside , when setting up a water supply , a portable pump trailer can also be used in impassable or damp terrain, and rescue workers from a TSA fire brigade are often involved in animal rescue. Furthermore, in the event of storms , floods or other disaster situations, all available resources are often involved in order to save lives and protect property.
Abbreviation and paging name
- TSA is both in German and in the Austrian fire brigades for T ragkraft s inject a nhänger.
- The TSA is usually not equipped with radio. However, there are z. B. in Lower Saxony also TSA with radio.
- Since the introduction of digital radio, the TSA in Bavaria have been equipped with at least 2 HRT (Handheld Radio Terminal = handheld radio) and have the radio call name "Florian Ortname 45/1".
technology
standardization
The portable pump trailer was standardized according to DIN 14520 until 1992 . In Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate , they are still standardized by technical directives and are still procured and subsidized today.
Fire brigade loading
In addition to suction hoses , B hoses and C hoses , the load on this trailer also includes a portable fire pump (TS 8/8, according to the new Portable Fire Pump Normal Pressure (PFPN) 10/1000 standard), which is inserted into the rear of the trailer. In addition, devices according to DIN for water extraction, water pumping and water delivery are housed. Tools for small technical assistance are also included. The standard also includes a bucket syringe with a D pressure hose (5 meters) and a D spray lance.
history
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The TSA was developed in the 1930s as an additional means of transporting fire fighting equipment and was usually always used together with a fire fighting vehicle.
In the 1950s, the TSA as well as the portable fire pump with crew (TSF-Tr) were discovered primarily by small rural communities as a cost-effective option, as in other countries, to modernize and motorize their fire brigades, which had previously been equipped with manual pressure sprayers.
With the structural change in agriculture, it was also possible to hang the TSA, which can also be moved by hand, on one of the increasingly numerous tractors and thus get to the place of use more quickly .
As already mentioned in the section on standardization , the TSA is still subsidized and procured in Bavaria and Rhineland-Palatinate . It is often the only fire service vehicle, especially for small fire departments with a low number of operations. These fire brigades usually do not have their own fire service vehicle ; in the event of an exercise or an alarm, the TSA is brought to the emergency site with a tractor or Unimog (if necessary also by muscle power).
Many newer models are now equipped with a towing device suitable for passenger cars ( ball socket instead of eye on the drawbar, lower position of the trailer coupling). So they can also be pulled with (mostly private) cars. Cars with a trailer coupling are usually more easily available in the event of an emergency and also faster on site than tractors. The disadvantage of the car is that it is less suitable for unpaved roads. With TSA equipped in this way, the accessories include a coupling ball that can be screwed onto the drawbar of a tractor so that it can continue to be used as a towing vehicle.
Nowadays TSAs are also procured for the youth fire departments . Should the "large vehicles" such as fire fighting vehicles , portable fire pumps , tank fire trucks or similar. be on duty, the youth fire brigade can still practice. On the other hand, these vehicles are not bound by the exercise and are therefore ready for use. Furthermore, it is easier for smaller people to remove heavy equipment (e.g. portable pumps) than from most large vehicles.
Cons and criticism
The TSA is particularly inexpensive and, due to its small size, very agile and easy to store. Due to the lack of special signal systems, radio, ladders, larger lighting equipment, water tanks and simple devices for technical assistance (THL), such as. B. chainsaws, fire brigades equipped with a portable pump trailer can only be used to a limited extent, e.g. B. for water pumping and for external attack .
The internal attack is standard in fire fighting these days. Due to the lack of breathing apparatus, this cannot be carried out at all with the equipment of a TSA. Furthermore, there are no ladders (e.g. 4-part extension ladder ) in order to be able to secure the necessary second escape route, especially in rural areas.
Due to changes in agriculture , fewer and fewer tractors have been available as towing vehicles for some years. For this reason, in Rhineland-Palatinate, the portable pump device (GW-TS), a kind of self-propelled TSA, has been developed and constructed so that you do not have to rely on a tractor in an emergency. There were similar reasons for the TSF-Tr .
However, seen in Austria, the Works Directive for small firetrucks neither respirators have a water tank in front of a TSA in connection with a so here crew transport vehicle can provide an almost complete replacement.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Name partial code for TSA is the 45th. See Annex 2.4 of the guideline for radio call names and operational-tactical addresses (OPTA) of the non-police authorities and organizations with security tasks (npol. BOS) in Bavaria from November 6, 2014 Az .: ID2- 0265.31-28 .
- ↑ Technical guidelines of the State of Rhineland-Palatinate for TSA
- ↑ Guidelines for grants from the Free State of Bavaria for the promotion of municipal fire services (PDF; 115 kB), Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, March 13, 2015
- ↑ Loading plan of a TSA (PDF; 8 kB), State Fire Brigade School Regensburg, December 2005
literature
- Walter Hamilton (greeting) and Heinz Schäfer (editing): Handbook for the firefighter. Boorberg-Verlag, Stuttgart; Munich; Hanover; Berlin; Weimar 1992, ISBN 3-415-01705-2