For anyone that’s ever asked or that we’ve shown, here is how we pull our flat load at 24-C. We have two goals pulling it this way: 1) It all gets flaked out so there are no kinks. 2) We get the nozzle and the coupling to the front door.

Our first line is always the crosslay with the nozzle facing the fire as it makes the prettiest stretch. (We aren’t using nova cool on the initial attack.)

We retrace our steps for two reasons: 1) it helps flake the hose out as retracing and turning perpendicular to the front door uses more hose than making a beeline for the door after we drop the first loop. 2) it keeps us from getting caught on obstacles such as trees, fences, landscaping, etc. Generally there are not gonna be obstructions inline with the front door.