The invention relates to the field of fire-fighting emergency devices, and particularly discloses a water band laying and recovering device which comprises a frame component, a self-locking clamping mechanism, a take-up mechanism, a rapid connector, a water extrusion guide mechanism, traveling mechanisms and a water band lifting and loading mechanism. The self-locking clamping mechanism and the take-up mechanism are arranged in the middle of the frame component, the rapid connector is connected with the self-locking clamping mechanism, a water extrusion guide mechanism is arranged on the lowerportion of the frame component, the traveling mechanisms are arranged on two sides of the bottom of the frame component, the water band lifting and loading mechanism is connected with the middle of the frame component, the water band lifting and loading mechanism and the frame component form a triangle supporting structure, the self-locking clamping mechanism comprises a left clamping arm and a right clamping arm, clamping heads are arranged at the opposite ends of the left clamping arm and the right clamping arm, the rapid connector is clamped between the clamping heads, the take-up mechanism comprises a take-up driving motor and a transmission component, the transmission component comprises a driving part and a driven part, the driving part is arranged on an output shaft of the take-updriving motor, the driven part is arranged on the self-locking clamping mechanism, the take-up driving motor drives the driving part to rotate, so that the driven part drives the rapid connector to rotate, and take-up and pay-off of a water band is completed.