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West Barnstable Fire works at maintaining the flow By David StillII dstill@barnstablepatriot.com DAVID STILL II PHOTOS IN AND OUT - A COMM tanker dumps into the portable holding tank, which served as the reservoir for the attack engine. FOAM FIGHTERS -WBFD firefighters Beth Miller and Pete Golas hold down the • foam hose during the early stages of Tuesday's drill. FILLING STATION - This hydrant on the eastern edge of the Marstons Mills Airfield served as the filling station for fire vehicles in the drill. • • • • • * ¦ • • • • • • i } BREAK THE FLOW - Maintaining a steady fire flow was not always possible during the drill,which Fire Chief Joe Maruca said was designed to push capacity limits. In a village without public water for drinking or fireflghting, knowing that the fire depart- ment can muster a steady, dousing stream adds a measure of comfort. In waterless West Barnstable, the Are department put itself to the test Tuesday night in a drill aimed at sustaining a fire flow of 600 gal- lons per minute for two solid hours. "We're being a little more aggres- sive," Chief Joe Maruca said during the drill. "We wanted to max it out to see what we could do." As the drill wound down, Maruca estimated that 450 gallons per min- ute was what was seen. There were some breaks in the flow, some as short as 30 seconds, others extend- ing for a few minutes, as vehicles made the 5.5 mile round trip from the Cape Cod Cooperative Bank/ post office property on Route 6A to the fill site on Route 149 and back. The West Barnstable Fire Depart- ment enlisted a little help from its friends. Assisting in the drill were crews and equipment from Centerville-Osterville-Marstons Mills, Barnstable, Mashpee and Otis Air Force Base. It was a somewhat idealized situation, with multiple pieces of equipment at the ready, but only somewhat. An ideal situation would have included another pumper with greater capacity. Sandwich's was unavailable for the drill, but had it been in the mix Maruca believes that with the additional capacity the 600-gallons-per-minute goal could have been reached ... maybe. Vehiclesreturning with water dumped into portable holding tanks, which served as reservoirs for the "attack" engine. Another part of the drill saw the attack engine "nurse" directly from tankers. The drill was designed to simu- late a water shuttle operation to battle a fire at a 4,000 square-foot building more than 2,000 feet from a fire hydrant, which is most of West Barnstable. Watching the operation at the COMM hydrant on the eastern edge of the airfield on Route 149, West Barnstable Deputy Chief Craig Pye said that fewer department s have the need for pumper trucks, espe- cially on this end of the Cape where public water is more widely avail- able. PUMPED UP ^- j Atmrtte * Sizes X-S - X-LG Plus sizes also. 20 Pearl Street Off Main, 1st left after Puritan, Hyannis Open Mon-Sat 10-5 * 508-771-7055 RHEpHHEBH I^ | "TOGETHER" ¦ §* £ **¥ WITH DON CORREIA ^ ? & GUY STROMAN ^B Wk . Saturday,August 26 • 8PM MLSUT. •* ^ Tilden Arts Center . ^ f l ¦ *»» ^fl Adults $44/42 • Seniors $42/40 * Youth$18 M ^ ^^B ^^^^ ALL BREED fVV ^J -/ s~\ DOG SALON »GR00M1NGDALES<508-775-0988 I NEW LOCATION! S Welcome One and All to Our OPEN HOUSE - SATURDAY,JULY 29™ YAPPYHOUR From 11:30am to 3pm Treats For Everyone! : I I L u f l i I L a ^: ¦ I KV\ ^B B 8^ Krl I Wf- ¦¦^¦¦¦J-JMHIMIMiK -J Hours: Mon-Fri 8am-5pm 89 South Main St. • Centerville, MA (previously located behind the Mall, v now located behind Guido's Market) [ f ^a S^ ^l Double Fealure l^ffilSB^PI Now Playing! V council on Aging J Weeks of July 24,h & 31¦" 50% OFFALL CLOTHING & CHRISTMAS IN JULY SALE 23 Frank Hicks Drive • Mashpee, MA (off Route 151, opposite Mashpee Senior Center) k Hours: Mon-Wed. Fri & Sat 9-1 pm.Thurs 9-3prn J &k ^ CONTRATOR'S £Hb^^-INSURANCE I 1 508-775-3131 / \ The j \ Fair Insurance ^ J ¦ V Agency, Inc- i 'i.- ^»gA\ !fc * ) Centerville Four Corners Yiqfflr ^ S^ 619 Main Street A I ^ / Centerville Wr ¦ Full-time , pari time and K\\ temporary .stalling In ¦ Workplace regulations Wm ¦ Staff training j H ¦ Organizational planning HL IIR Regulations begin to impact a small biuinesgf Jrm ^M I alter yon hire your second emp loyee. Don't be 'T A' w' j E A 1 without the proper input from an HR professional*^¦ B I A Virtual 1 IR relationship with The Executive SuiV^fl will make a difference. JJBHH ^ E MJ^^^^^^H LOW COST ¦ EFFECTrv E •EFIlflH ' ff^^ H Cape Cod's premier human resource conluttfcgM Pleasecall Elizabeth Harris, President, for an apptf