Fire hose retaining rubber bands are for securing 1" or 1 1/2" forestry or single jacket hose for storage, transport and deployment. These heavy-duty rubber bands will work on fifty and hundred foot length of hoses.
This Wildland Fire Equipment fire hose rubber retaining band is used by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (USF&WS), National Park Service (NPS), State and Local governments, and other Forest Service–sponsored participants in the government-wide wildland firefighting effort.
This is the same water-handling accessories fire hose rubber retaining band found in the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Wildland Fire Equipment catalog or Fedmall.mil.