APPARATUS DELIVERIES

APPARATUS DELIVERIES

Clairton, Pennsylvania is a steel town that is in the process of dismantling its paid firefighting force in favor of a combined paid and volunteer department, according to Fire Chief John Lattanzi. Safety was on their minds when they planned their new pumper —they will have a paid driver with volunteer firefighters on the apparatus.

Their pumper, built by Grumman, features the new Panther II tilt cab chassis and offers high visibility with the large windshield. Firefighters will ride protected in a four-door cab that seats eight. The large open area in the cab affords better communications among members, which adds to safety and improves teamwork.

The unit has a 3,100-square-inch windshield and extended front bumper with chrome towing hooks. It also has a Federal Model “Q” siren and intersection warning lights.

The pumper has a 165-inch wheelbase and mounts a Waterous CMYBX two-stage, 1,250-gpm pump. Aside from the standard large intakes, it has two 3 1/2-inch side intakes and one 3-inch at the rear. Four transverse trays for 1 3/4-inch attack lines are above the pump panel and a 3-inch pipe feeds an Elkhart Stinger appliance. The unit carries 200 feet of 2 1/2-inch preconnect and 2,000 feet of 3-inch supply line. The water tank carries 750 gallons.

The vehicle body has 10 tool and equipment compartments and mounts an Onan 6-kw diesel generator. Other features include an overhead ladder rack, two 1,000-watt telescoping floodlights, and a Hannay electric rewind reel.

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The Queensbury Central Fire Department of Glens Falls, New York recently purchased a 95-foot Baker Aerialscope.

The new unit has a body built by Saulsbury. It has an aluminum body and 10 equipment compartments. It also has a tandem rear axle and a 240-inch wheelbase.

The platform payload capacity for this vehicle is 800 lbs., and the outrigger spread is 19 feet, 6 inches. It is mounted on a Mack CF 686 chassis and has a cab that seats five personnel.

The boom has two air cylinders mounted on it to feed three masks in the bucket. The bucket has a Stang gun with 1,000-gpm nozzle, two 1 ‘/2-discharges, and an underplatform water curtain. The intakes are angled downward. The left side is set up for LDH and the right side has a Siamese for smaller hose. The unit has a 15-kw hydraulic generator built by Harrison. There are nine 500-watt and two 300watt Stonco floodlights.

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The Orange County, California Fire Department recently placed in service a fleet of 19 pumpers built by Seagrave Fire Apparatus.

Battalion Chief Mike Ahumada says that a field battalion chief and an automotive shop supervisor worked together to develop all specifications. Using guidelines developed by the chief of department (4-door cab, 1,500-gpm pump), and incorporating recommendations solicited from the field, they wanted apparatus that were safe, comfortable, operationally efficient, and reasonably priced. Ease of operation and maintenance was critical because the fleet is operated by both career and volunteer personnel.

The pumpers have seating for six and are built with the Model JB cab. They have a Waterous Model CSU, single-stage pump and carry 500 gallons of water. A 4-inch front intake and a 3-inch prepiped Stang gun are featured. Two transverse trays with preconnected 1 1/2inch attack lines are over the pump. The unit also has an Akron #2959 foam system with a 30-gallon stainless steel tank. The vehicle body has seven tool compartments and three SCBA bottle compartments.

The OCFD operates 46 stations in six battalions, protecting 524 square miles of unincorporated county areas and 12 cities with a total population of 752,417. It has a contract with the state of California for protection of state wildland and mutual-aid agreements with Los Angeles County and the city of Long Beach, U.S. Forest Service, California Department of Forestry, and the military

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The Gwinnett County, Georgia Bureau of Fire Services was formed in January of 1971 in the city of Norcross with one station, one pumper, and two paid members. It has since expanded to 18 stations, a headquarters, and a fire academy operating 18 engines, six aerials, seven medic units, a heavy rescue unit, a light and air unit, a haz-mat unit, and a dive unit with boats.

A motorized apparatus committee was formed to address driver training, maintenance, equipment placement, and vehicle versatility, according to Fire Chief M. H. Buice. Their most recent purchases meet NFPA 1901 standards and enhance NFPA 1500 requirements, as does 90 percent of the fleet.

The pumpers were purchased from Sutphen and are built of galvaneal steel. They have four-door cabs seating seven and have a wheelbase of 190 inches.

The units carry 750 gallons of water and are equipped with a Hale Model QG, 1,250-gpm, two-stage pump and a 39-gallon tank of AFFF. The pumps have side intakes only with Akron Butterfly Valves. There are 10 discharges for 1 3/4-inch and 2 1/2-inch hose serving three sides of the pumper plus a 3-inch direct feed to a 1,200-gmp Akron Apollo deck gun. The pumpers also feature nine tool compartments, a set of Federal 12-volt Night-Fighter lights, a Hale 4.2-kw gasoline generator, and a midship-mounted booster reel.

Hie county covers 436.3 square miles and has a population of 330,300. The response area ranges from heavy industrial/commercial to residential to vast areas of undeveloped land. The units were designed to suit all the areas.

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Richmond Hill, Ontario is located 15 miles north of Toronto. Its department is the regional haz-mat response unit for the York Region, which covers more than 300 square miles. The department recently purchased a pumper with a 75-foot Telesqurt. It is one of three new apparatus assigned to the No. 3 Station, which serves a mixture of residential and industrial areas. Captain Allen McKenzie says. The unit is built by Superior Emergency Equipment, Ltd. and is mounted on a Pierce Arrow chassis. It has a top-mount pump control panel and mounts a Waterous, single-stage, 1,050-Igpm pump. There are six 2 1/2-inch discharges midship plus two 1 1/2-inch in transverse beds for attack lines. Intakes consist of four 2 1/2-inch, one 4-inch, and one 6-inch at midship plus a 4-inch rear intake used to feed the Telesqurt, which is manufactured by Snorkel Economy. Water reaching the base of the boom is branched off through dual 2 1/2-inch telescoping waterways to feed an 835-Igpm Elkhart nozzle.

The unit carries 650 Imperial gallons of water and is equipped with 500 feet of 4-inch hose. The body has nine tool compartments and recessed ground ladder storage over the tandem rear wheels. (Photo by Dave Stewardson.)

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The Noroton Heights District covers one-third of the town of Darien, Connecticut. Interstate Highway 95 and the Metro North Railroad split the town. The town is about 14 square miles and ranges from single family residences to very light commercial occupancies.

According to member Mark McEwan, the department’s rescue truck was designed to cover incidents ranging from motor vehicle accidents to assistance at structural fires. It was also purchased to be a townwide command center.

The vehicle is built by Marion Body and is mounted on a Mack model MC 688FC chassis with a 150-inch wheelbase. There is seating for two in the tilt cab plus four in the rescue box. The box also has 11 tool and equipment compartments, including one behind the cab that stores spineboards and a Stokes basket stretcher.

The unit has a six-ton front-mounted winch and is equipped with a 6,000-psi, four-cylinder cascade system with a fragmentation tank. Twelve spare SCBA bottles are stored. A direct-drive 20-kw Onan diesel generator is on board, as are six 500-watt recessed floodlights on the sides of the 16-foot rescue box.

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Detroit Rescue Crews Use Boats, Frontend Loaders Amid Severe Flooding

Rescue crews in Detroit Monday had to rescue families left trapped by severe flooding that left streets and homes under water.

Fire Burns Through PA Aerospace Supplier

A large fire broke out Monday night at SPS Technologies, an aerospace supplier in Abington Township.