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The pumper and its checks, the centrifugal pump, priming and drafting, hydrant lays, friction loss, pump discharge pressure in kPa and the pump panel. Every topic has its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 64 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 7 parts and 60 topics.
It's shift change. You're at the pumper with the check sheet, the officer is watching, and you start the walk-around. Halfway down the side you can't say if you've done the compartments yet.
The manual covers it in paragraphs: fluids in one section, tires a few pages on, the pump panel in another chapter. Read that way, there's no order to follow at the truck.
In this book the walk-around is one page: the pumper drawn with 7 numbered stops, always in the same order: fluids, tires, lights, compartments, hose loads, pump panel, cab. You go round once and nothing gets skipped.
The rest works the same way: the centrifugal pump, pumping from the tank, PDP in 4 steps, the pump panel and the annual service test. Each topic gets its own page.
You walk the truck in order, tick it off and you don't need the manual open on the front bumper.
The pumper and the job, apparatus checks and driving, how the pump works, water supply, hydraulics in kPa, the pump panel, and practice and review: 64 pages, all illustrated
Think of it this way:
The captain calls for a line two floors up: 60 metres of 45 mm hose, nozzle at 700 kPa. The crew is waiting on your number.
In the book you open the PDP page and see one pumper, one line and the 4 steps drawn on it: nozzle pressure, friction loss, elevation, appliances, in kPa with psi alongside.
Same with priming, drafting from a pond, hydrant colours, cavitation on the compound gauge and the service test: each one on its own page.
Pump Operator Illustrated: Canada is 7 parts and 60 topics, all drawn, with ten layouts to work out, the answers step by step and a checklist for the practical evaluation at the end.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
What NFPA 1002 asks of a pumper driver/operator, the pumper from outside, metric and imperial on the same fireground, pressure, flow and head, static, residual and flow pressure, and why drafting works.
The daily walk-around in the same order, pump compartment checks, tires, brakes and air, weekly and monthly checks, driving a heavy pumper, intersections, backing with a spotter and positioning at the scene, so you walk the truck once and nothing gets skipped.
The centrifugal pump cut open: impeller and volute, single- and two-stage pumps, the transfer valve, the PTO, pump seals, priming devices, relief valve and governor, and pump cooling.
Pumping from the tank, dry and wet barrel hydrants, hydrant colours, forward and reverse lays, supply hose and intakes, percent drop, drafting step by step, lift, relay pumping and tanker shuttles.
Pump discharge pressure on one line, always in the same 4 steps: nozzle pressure, friction loss with the metric formula and coefficients, elevation and appliances. Worked examples, wyes, siamesed lines and master streams, so when the captain calls a line you already know the order of the sum.
Reading the pump panel, the compound gauge, charging a line without water hammer, cavitation, tank to hydrant, supplying standpipes and sprinklers, foam, and shutting down and draining, so you know what each gauge is telling you before you touch the throttle.
The pump service test, the PDP card, ten layouts to work out with step-by-step answers, troubleshooting low nozzle pressure, the most common mistakes at the panel and the practical evaluation checklist.
At the end of the book: Ten layouts to work out with step-by-step answers, the PDP card and a practical evaluation checklist.
Test yourself on pumps, hydraulics and water supply with exam-style questions, each answer explained so you see where the mistake was.
See the mistakes that cause cavitation, water hammer and wrong pressures, each drawn wrong and then right, to review the night before.
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Each topic of the course is one drawn page, so the pump, the water supply and the hydraulics finally fit together in the same order.
The PDP card, ten layouts with answers and the practical checklist let you review the whole job in a few evenings between shifts.
You put a drawing and a number behind what you do by feel, so you can recertify and explain it to new operators without guessing.
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Yes. It starts from the truck you know and walks the hydraulics in 4 steps, in kPa and L/min with psi alongside, for crews that still pump in psi.
From NFPA 1002 (2017 edition), Chapters 4 and 5 (Pumper), the edition Ontario's O. Reg. 343/22 refers to, NFPA 1911 for the service test and NFPA 291 for hydrant colours. Outside Ontario, check which edition your province or academy uses. Editions, intervals and values are flagged to check against the current version and your department's SOGs.
No. It's independent study material. It isn't published or endorsed by NFPA, IFSTA, the Office of the Fire Marshal or any department, and it doesn't give you a certificate or count toward certification: that comes from your evaluation.
No. It sits next to your course manual: the manual explains, this book shows each topic on one drawn page, with PDP always in the same 4 steps, in kPa with psi alongside. It's what you review between shifts and keep in the cab.
No. They're written for this book in exam style, with each answer explained. They aren't official exam questions.
As a PDF by email, to the address you enter at checkout. The 2 bonus books come the same way.
No. It's a one-time payment.
Yes. It's a PDF you can print at home or at a print shop and keep in the cab.
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