verb
General Slang
stretch
· verb · firefighter
Pull the hose and get it to the fire.
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Definitions
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The act of pulling an attack hoseline off the rig and flaking it out toward the fire, ready to be charged with water. The stretch is the most-drilled, most-second-guessed skill in the fire service — a short stretch leaves you trapped without enough line, a long one tangles in the stairwell. "Make the stretch" is the order; "the stretch" is also the noun for the line itself.
“Two-and-a-half off the back, stretch it to the Charlie side, we're going in through the kitchen.”
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stretch In A Sentence
Two-and-a-half off the back, stretch it to the Charlie side, we're going in through the kitchen.
Origin & Usage
Standard American fireground vocabulary; especially associated with FDNY hose-management doctrine.
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