Planning for Propane Tanks
Channel: sctinc
Date: 2022-12-17

Fighting a fire at a home, without headlamps, and without familiarity with the property, requires collaboration and communication. If the Fire Chief or the Officer in Charge does not ask about your propane tanks, and the police will allow you, do your part to be sure that they know about them and that they are keeping water on them.

In our case we had water from our well that could have been used by the firefighters to keep these tanks cool while they waited on water being relayed from the closest fire hydrant - a 10 mile round trip. For some reason the propane tank viewable from my video camera capturing the time of entry and time when it lost its data connection - 50 minutes - was removed by our propane company. The others are still on the property.