APPARATUS DELIVERIES
Thè Gulfport, Florida Fire Department, an all-volunteer company, serves a population of 12,000 within a 2 1/2-square-mile area. It had to replace a 1955 vintage pumper and a 1962 mini pumper built by its members. In planning its new apparatus, it had to consider 150 2 ½and 3 ½-story new homes built on stilts that populated the district.
The department decided on a pumper with a 65-foot telescoping waterway and access ladder to provide needed reach, especially for reaching between houses from the street without entering the property, according to member George Hensly. The Telesqurt 65 Model 6560 by Snorkel-Economy is mounted on a Pierce Arrow pumper and has a 200-inch wheelbase.
The Telesqurt can flow 1,000 gpm in any position with a 250-lb. tip load or can endure a 500-lb. tip load without water flow. The boom has an Elkhart nozzle with a lateral sweep of 180° and vertical travel of 200°. The outrigger spread is 11 feet, and nested overall length is 32 feet. There are rear access ladders to the boom.
The pump is a Waterous CS 1,250-gpm single-stage, which can feed the heavy stream nozzle through 2‘/2-inch piping on the boom. The boom can also be fed through two rear 2 ‘/2-inch intake/discharge connections, which can deliver water through hoselines when the boom is not in use. The pumper also has two 1 ⅛-inch crosslays and a midship-mounted booster reel and carries 1,200 feet of 3-inch supply hose. It has a 500-gallon water tank and nine tool compartments.
There is an intercom between the ladder tip and the operators at the rear of the vehicle and the pump panel. All crew members wear headsets connected to a Baron Aviation Intercom System interfaced with a GE radio.
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The Halifax, Massachusetts Fire Department purchased its first aerial ladder truck because of a problem common in New England: low overhead clearance at the station. The door opening at the fire station is 10 feet high—and in snow the opening is even smaller.
Fire Chief Kenneth Calvin had to choose a service aerial that met these height requirements. He picked an Emergency-One truck on a Cyclone chassis with a four-door cab for safer riding. It has a wheelbase of 250 inches and a body of aluminum extrusion design.
The aerial ladder is aluminum and is 96 feet from the ground when fully extended vertically. The hydraulic outrigger spread is 15 feet -The body is fully compartmented and although there is no pump, the unit does have a hose bed.
The unit has 6-kw diesel generator and two 500-watt tip lights at the end of the aerial. (Photo by Philip R. Lincoln.)
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The Casco Township, Michigan Fire Department recently purchased a tanker built by Spencer Manufacturing, Inc. According to member Warren Sill, since the department is located in a rural community with no hydrants, they rely on tankers and portable tanks to get water to fire scenes. The new tanker, built on a Ford I.-8000 chassis, has a Caterpillar Model 3208 diesel engine and a 10-speed Ranger standard transmission.
The short, wheelbased unit has two 4-inch front fill pipes with quarter-turn buttefly valves and a 12-inch rear dump with butterfly valve. The tanker is baffled according to NFPA specifications and has internal vents and overfills. Switches to operate the air cylinder for the rear dump are located at both sides of the tank at the rear. The truck has an MC fluid light at the rear and inside die cab. The tanker can unload in 80 seconds. Five-inch hose with 4-inch fittings is used to fill other tankers.
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Lexington, North Carolina, population 17,000, covers 12 square miles and is located on Interstate 85, 50 miles north of Charlotte. It has many large furniture and textile manufacturing facilities in both the central city and outlying areas. The department purchased its new elevating platform quint to complement its aerial ladder, which was going out for refurbishing.
According to Fire Chief William S. Deal, they wanted a platform to provide an operating position for elevated streams and for initiating or supporting a fire attack above ground-level. They also wanted an articulating device with horizontal reach to have the platform close to rooftop operations. In addition, they needed a device with a narrow outrigger width to set up on narrow streets and alleys common in some sections of town. Finally, they needed a full complement of ground ladders to attain l.S.O. credit as a truck company.
Ihe amount of equipment they needed to carry required high side compartments on both sides of the apparatus. Because the outrigger system prevents storage of ladders within the body, they specified a hydraulic ladder rack to carry most of the ground ladders.
The boom was built by Snorkel/Economy. The body was built by : Grumman on a Duplex Vanguard chassis with tilt cab and seating for 10. The cab is climate-controlled.
The unit has a 1,500-gpm two-stage Waterous pump and carries 300 gallons of water. Transverse hose trays carry preconnected attack lines, and the main hose bed has 1,500 feet of LDH. A 4-inch waterpipe feeds the 85-foot boom. The quint carries a 12-kw Onan diesel generator, and all body compartments are fully accessible with the ladder rack down. _
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The Willoughby Hills, Ohio Fire Department protects 18.5 square miles. It recently placed in service a new Sutphen pumper equipped with a 750-gallon water tank and 100-gallon foam tank with built-in eductors prepiped to two 1 ¾-inch crossiays. According to Fire Chief William J. Heckler, both tanks are an asset for protecting the residential, commercial, and mercantile areas as well as an airport and two interstate highways.
The pumper has a 4-door custom cab and a 195-inch wheelbase. The pump is a Hale 1,500-gpm single-stage with a 2 1/2-inch discharge above the front bumper and two at the rear of the vehicle. There is a 5-inch discharge, piping for four attack lines, and a prepiped Akron Apollo deck gun with 1,000-gpm nozzle. The unit carries 2, 100 feet of 5-inch hose.
Ihe vehicle body has 14 equipment compartments. A 35-foot ladder is located under the hosebed. Hie unit carries a Winco 6-kw gasoline generator and has two 1,500-watt telescoping floodlights mounted behind the cab.
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The U S. Army is receiving and placing in service 362 multipurpose firefighting units both at l.’.S. and overseas installations. According to Buddy Dean of Fort Belvoir, Virginia, who was involved with writing the specifications for these vehicles, the apparatus was designed to support the combat soldier under all field conditions. The concept was to achieve a unit that could travel at normal highway speed yet also be capable of off-road travel under conditions normally encountered by tactical wheeled and track vehicles in temperatures of -65° F to 125° F.
The unit has a Godiva 1,000-gpm pump with top-mount control panel; a Feecon Remote Manual Non-Aspiratcd 500-gpm roof turret and a Feecon 250-gpm bumper turret of the same model; a booster reel; and two transverse beds. (Photo by Tom W Shond.)
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The Roberts Park Fire Protection District injustice, Illinois is a 5square-niile bedroom community that intersects 1-294 (Illinois toll road) and is bordered by many square miles of county forest preserves. “Since we get an increasing number of auto accidents, our first piece (Squad 304) is set up for rescue and fire,” says Captain J. Fijalkowski.
Squad 304 and its mate, Engine 303, are identical and are built by Darley on Spartan Gladiator chassis with tilt cabs seating five. They have a bolt-on crew bulkhead with sliding doors to protect the crew from bad weather. The units have an 185-inch wheelbase.
The pump is a Darley LM single-stage 1,500-gpm with color-coded valves, discharges, and gauges. There is a 5-inch discharge at both the rear and right side of the pump, and both side intakes are preconnected with LDH. The units carry’ 500 feet of 5-inch hose. Two transverse trays hold attack lines above the pump and a 2 ½-inch rear discharge is wyed to two 1 ⅝-inch attack lines. There is also a prepiped Akron Apollo deck gun with a 1,000-gpm nozzle.
The bodies have seven tool compartments with Roll-O-Matic doors, which eliminate the need to walk around an open door and thus is safer for the crew when operating on the highway. A hydraulic ladder rack is also featured on the apparatus, and these doors allow equipment retrieval when the rack is down. The rack, which carries 59 feet of ground ladders, allows for the full height compartments, which are on both sides of the vehicle.
The units also have two rearand two side-mounted 500-watt telescoping floodlights and a Gillette 4.5-kw diesel generator. Water tanks carry 500 gallons.
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The Redmond, Washington Fire District serves a population that exceeds 55,000 spread over 50 square miles. One of its support units, a 1970 100-foot aerial, had to be replaced due to costly repairs. According to Battalion Chief Bob McCullough, when a demonstrator quint became available from Seagrave, the department decided that it would fit the bill.
The quint is built on a Seagrave JR chassis with a 4-door cab. It has a 274-inch wheelbase and a tandem rear axle. The pump is a
Waterous CMUY two-stage 1,500-gpm and has a 5-inch rear intake. There are two 2 1/2-inch and two 1 1/2-inch preconnects on the vehicle. A prepiped 3-inch waterway on the aerial feeds on Akron ladderpipe with Akronmatic 1,000-gpm nozzle. The unit has 600 feet of 5-inch hose.
The heavy-duty, 110-foot, four-section aerial ladder features guards on the top fly section to protect the ladderpipe and spotlights on the end of each truss rail. The outrigger spread is 17 feet.
The vehicle body has 11 equipment compartments and carries 300 gallons of water. (Photo by Bill Hottersley.)
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Kings Park, New York has many hilly areas, according to Chief Robert Carrol, so the department specifically designed its new FWDSeagrave pumper to have four-wheel drive capability. Like the rest of the pumpers in the fleet, the feature assures arrival in those areas especially during winter storms.
The Waterous, two-stage, 1,250-gpm pump has a preconnected front intake equipped with a precon valve, which adjusts the flow of hydrant water to coincide with the amount demanded through discharge lines or feeders.
Among the attack lines are two Mattydale trays of 1 3/4-inch hose forward of the pump panel. Another 300 feet are carried along with 2,000 feet of 3-inch and 200 feet of 2 1/2-inch hose. The unit carries 750 gallons of water. (Photo by John M. Molecky.)
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