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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Medical Device-According to US FDA. A device is an instrument, apparatus, implement, machine, contrivance, implant, in vitro reagent, or other similar or related article, including a component part, or accessory which is:1  recognized in the official National Formulary, or the United States Pharmacopoeia, or any supplement to them,edical device relying for its functioning on a source of electrical energy or any source of power other than that directly generated by the human body or gravity. E.g. Ultrasound scanner, lungs ventilator, X-ray machines, pacemaker, phototherapy etc.