WOODBURY – Jan 11th, 2025—Woodbury Firefighters placed 1500 feet of brand new five-inch hose on Reel Truck 1 Saturday January 11th with a collective sigh of relief at the finished project. They completed an eight-year effort to replace all five miles of hoses on the town’s six firetrucks plus auxiliary vehicles. Fire Chief Janet B. Morgan thanked the dozen firefighters who turned out for the effort and added praise for the town’s Board of Finance which approved the $15,000 cost of the hoses in Saturday’s work.
In the first photo, Woodbury Firefighters Robert Start (left) and Steve Anctil couple two new lengths of hose as it winds into place on the truck. In the second picture Firefighter Steve Anctil ensures the new hose feeds smoothly. In the third picture Firefighter Hadon Ware guides a hose onto its reel.
Some old hoses dated back to 1980, Chief Morgan said, and were “developing dangerous weep holes” in annual pressure tests. Deputy Fire Chief Dave Lampart said the department usually sets 50 to 75 lbs. water pressure per square inch (PSI) for the five-inch hoses in firefighting and as much as 75 to 125 lbs. PSI is used on smaller lines. In all Reel Truck 1 carries 3000 feet of five-inch hose on two reels and two cross lays which are 300 feet of three-inch hose and another 300 feet of one-and-three-quarter inch hose.
