Tanker 85 participated in a regional tanker drill in Lancaster County on Tuesday evening June 2. The training exercise was sponsored by the Cocalico Area Fire Department in the Reamstown/Smokestown area and simulated a house fire with no fixed water supply. Nine tankers from area fire departments ran a shuttle between the simulated fire scene and a remote refilling site that used a pond for supply. Each tanker discharged their payload into a portable folding tank at the fire scene and returned to the refill site to reload. At this point the tanker returned to the scene and repeated the evolution.
Tanker 85 completed four round trips and delivered over 6000 gallons of water in the process. Given that ours was the smallest tanker of the nine involved, is obvious that the exercise successfully delivered several times that amount.
