The days of flipping through papers to get particulars while enroute to a fire are gone in Spring Hill.
Now, firefighters will be using an app -- FlowMSP -- to get intel about a commercial structure, Fire Chief Graig Temple told WKRN.
Among the information available includes utilities locations; what hazardous materials may be stored on-site; and, based on square footage, how much water per minute is necessary to fight a fully involved fire and what hydrants will provide that amount of flow, he explained.
“It’s going to immediately highlight the closest two hydrants for that building so we don’t have to think about it. When they jump in the truck and the map pulls up. it’ll show them, highlighted, which hydrants need to be hit,” Temple said.
Temple said there are more than 3,000 commercial buildings in the city, each with its own utility hook-up locations, specific hazmat issues, and water flow specifications.
