In a two-pump water shuttle, the pumper positioned near the emergency scene is called the:

• A. Shuttle Tender
• B. Fill Site Pumper
• C. Dump Site Pumper
• D. Source Pumper

Answer: (C)

In a two-pump water shuttle, one pumper stays at the water source to draft water and push it into the shuttle, while the other pumper sits at the dump site near the scene to receive that water and deliver it into the attack engine. That pumper at the scene is called the dump site pumper because its primary job is to dump water into the engine’s pump or into the hose lay to keep the attack line flowing.

The source pumper is the one at the water source, and a fill site pumper would be used if there were a separate fill site for refilling tankers. The shuttle tender is a coordinating role for managing the shuttle operation, not the pumper positioned right at the scene.