05/19/2026
Monday evening GFD hosted a tanker shuttle drill in Glasgow. Our automatic aid stations contributed an amazing amount of equipment and personnel to make the event an overwhelming success.
This drill provided the opportunity to test our area’s ability to provide a large volume of water to locations in our response districts not covered by a hydrant system.
The minimum standard for insurance rate calculations is to flow 250 gallons per minute within the first 5 minutes upon arrival and maintain that flow for two hours. Additional credit is given to agencies who can improve that flow to 500 gpm within the first 15 minutes upon arrival and hold that for two hours, which was the goal of this exercise. More points are awarded for any flows maintained above 500 gpm.
Six tankers were utilized from Glasgow (1), Armstrong (2), Howard County Station 1 (1), Station 2 (1), and Station 4 (1). This arsenal makes up part of our local task force that will be requested in the event of a large incident which can be supplemented by a full scale task force to bring in resources from Cooper County.
Once our goal was achieved and flows were held without strain to the system, more appliances on our engine were placed into service until personnel flowed and maintained an astonishing 1,000 gallons per minute!
The fill site at Missouri Regional Bank was filling the tankers in as little as 3 to 4 minutes to keep the line moving without delay.
GFD would like to thank our mutual aid partners at Armstrong and Howard County Stations 1, 2, and 4 for making this drill a success.
We would also like to thank Brayden Minor and the Glasgow Pool board for preparing and allowing us to use the facility, and a special thanks to Adam Gordon of the Glasgow Water Plant for his information and updates of the municipal water supply as we were operating.
