Common Hose Loads & Finishes. The way in which we carry or store fire hose on engine companies and other apparatus with pumps depends on many factors, such as apparatus layout, needed hose lengths, type and size of hose used, available manpower, tradition and/or orders from higher up in the food chain.
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Full Definition of EQUIPMENT. 1. a: the set of articles or physical resources serving to equip a person or thing: as (2) : all the fixed assets other than land and buildings of a business enterprise (3) : the rolling stock of a railway b: a piece of such equipment.2.a: the equipping of a person or thing b: the state of being equipped.3.. a: the set of articles or physical resources serving to equip a person or thing: as (2) : all the fixed assets other than land and buildings of a business enterprise (3) : the rolling stock of a railway b: a piece of such equipment. 2. a: the equipping of a person or thing b: the state of being equipped. 3.