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The city of Chaska, Minnesota has a population of 12,000 and covers 30 square miles. Chaska has three industrial parks and a rural area, which includes two townships. Fire Chief Jim Worm explains that the department was looking to replace a tanker and add a pumper, so it purchased a 2,600-gallon tanker-pumper built by Pirsch.
The tanker-pumper has a Hale QSMG 1,500-gpm single-stage pump with preconnected front intake and a 5-inch discharge on the right side and at the rear of the apparatus. The unit carries 1,000 feet of 5-inch hose. The tank can be dumped in just under two minutes. Above the rear wheels is a compartment for a 3,000-gallon portable drop tank. There are also seven tool and equipment compartments.
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The unit has a 100-gallon in-line injected foam system and a 3-inch prepiped heavy stream appliance with an Elkhart HF-500 foam nozzle. It has four 500-watt Churchville telescoping quartz floodlights as well as a 6.5-kw Onan gasoline-driven generator. Warning devices include a Federal Q2B siren, two Unity RV-46 roof beacons, a Mars 888 light below the windshield, two 7-inch red flashers on both the side and rear, and Code-3 500H lights on rear stanchions.
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• Aipharetta, Georgia, a northern suburb of Atlanta, is a city evolving from a rural agricultural area to a major regional and national mixeduse area, Fire Chief W.S. Bates says, and it is experiencing tremendous growth in residential housing as well as major corporate headquarters. The department’s new pumper, built by American Fire Apparatus, was purchased for Station No. 2, which is located in a mixed-use development comprising 3,500 acres built by Mobil Land Development (a division of Mobil Oil).
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The pumper was designed to provide engine company coverage for residential housing and large multistoried office buildings found in the development. In addition, it answers first-responder emergency medical calls.
The unit is built on a Spartan Gladiator chassis with cab seating for six. It is powered by a Cummins L-10 turbo-diesel engine with an Allison MT-647 automatic transmission and has a wheelbase of 160 inches. The pump, a Hale single-stage 1,250-gpm has five 2’/2-inch discharges and prepiped Akron “Stinger” gun with 1,000-gpm nozzle. The pumper body has 12 tool compartments, crosstrays for attack lines, and running board storage boxes for preconnected intake hose. It carries 750 gallons of water in a fiberglass-lined steel booster tank.
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The East Troy, Wisconsin Volunteer Fire Department has recently placed in service a front-mounted midi-pumper built by Darley. The department serves an area of 62 square miles and a population of 7,000. According to Fire Chief Donald Pluess, the unit has three functions: It is used as a grass fire unit, a tanker filler at rural fires, and a supply pumper (hydrant truck) at village fires.
The pumper is mounted on a Ford F-350 chassis and has a 138-inch wheelbase. It has an International Harvester 7.3-liter diesel engine and a Ford 5-speed standard transmission. It has four-wheel drive and a pump-and-roll capability and carries 200 gallons of water.
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The front-mounted Darley KDF 750-gpm single-stage pump has a 5-inch intake and four 2’/2-inch discharges. The unit has a booster reel with 300 feet of 1 -inch hose and carries 600 feet of 3-inch supply hose. Thirty feet of 5-inch lightweight hard suction hose is also on board with an ice suction adaptor.
Other features include a 6-ton rear-mounted winch, six tool compartments, a 2.6-kw Generac gasoline-driven generator, and two telescoping and two portable 500-watt floodlights.
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Washington, Illinois, a suburb of Peoria in the central part of the state, is a bedroom community with light commercial and rural farm areas covering 62 square miles. The combined fire department and rescue squad responds first due to the Caterpillar Proving Grounds. U.S. Highway 24 runs through the town.
Rescue Chief Paul J. Lukavich says its new Marion body unit was designed for four functions: a rescue truck, a service company, a command post, and a haz-mat unit. It is mounted on a Ford Cargo, CF6000 tilt cab chassis and has a wheelbase of 189 inches.
The rescue body has a crew cab that seats five (three with SCBA). It has four tool compartments on each side plus a rear compartment with roll-up door and two slide-out trays 84 inches long. The chief says that with the 463 cubic feet of room on the vehicle it has more storage space than a 20-foot walk-in rescue truck.
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Each of the four front tool compartments has a reel of 100 feet of ⅜-inch air hose and a reel of 150 feet of wire electric cord. The unit has a 6-bottle 5,000-psi cascade system equipped with a fragmentation cyclinder and has a direct-drive Onan 7.5-kw diesel generator remotely started from the cab. Four 500-watt Telelites are also controlled from the cab. Within the forward section of the crew cab above the seats is an intercom to the truck cab, a portable cellular phone, a computer printer, and a computer.
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The city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania is divided by three major rivers and has 126 bridges and three interstate parkways that provide access to and through the city. Bulk fuel plants and gasoline tankers present a daily risk that requires the fire bureau to be able to flow high volumes of foam for control of flammable liquid fires. Fire Chief Charlie Dickinson says the department designed its new Foam-Squrt for versatility—it has a 54-foot articulating boom with foam capability—and for the ability to pump high volumes of foam to other satellite units.
The unit, built on a Pierce Lance chassis, carries a full range of specialized equipment for handling haz-mat incidents. The pumper has a Detroit 8V 92TA DDEC diesel engine and an Allison HT 740-D automatic transmission. The 4-door tilt-cab seats six and has a 4 ‘/2-ton winch mounted in the extended front bumper.
The pump is a Waterous two-stage CMC 1,500-gpm; has two 4inch rear intakes, one of which is also a discharge; and has four 2 Viinch and one 5-inch discharges as well as a pair each of 154-inch, 2inch, and 3-inch discharges. The unit carries 500 gallons of water, 700 gallons of foam, and 1,000 feet of 5-inch hose. The Squrt boom, built by Snorkel, is fed through 4-inch pipe and has a 1,000-gpm nozzle. Foam can be pumped through all discharges.
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The Hudson, Illinois Volunteer Fire Department, serving a population of 3,000, has added a new pumper in anticipation of strong growth and expansion, according to Chief Del Thomas. The territory covers 57 square miles, has two man-made lakes, and includes a lumber company, grain elevators, a fertilizer company, and a marina. The town areas have hydrants but the rural areas do not.
Since the purchase of its last new pumper in 1979, the department learned a lot about the pitfalls of being in too much of a hurry to order an engine, says the chief, “so we took a few years in the planning of this one and evaluated the good and bad points of the last engine.”
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The new pumper, built by Darley on a Ford C-8000 tilt cab chassis, seats five. The three seats in the canopy have SCBA setups so personnel can fasten them en route. All compartments are built with adjustable shelves. Due to the area’s severe weather, the body was constructed of aluminum. The unit has a 5.5-kw generator controlled from the instrument panel of the 1,000-gpm Darley pump. A 1,250gallon water tank was chosen to cover both rural and town areas.
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The city of Renton, Washington (pop. 40,000) lies just south of Seattle on the shores of lake Washington at the foot of Mt. Rainier. The department’s new FMC pumper reflects some specific concerns brought up in the planning stage. The department wanted a topmount pump panel and enclosed crew cab for personnel and operator safety as well as sirens and other audible warning devices in the front below the driver to improve noise exposure levels, according to member Jim Matthew. The Spartan Gladiator tilt cab, with seating for six, has a raised roof over the crew area for easier egress.
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A prepiped Akron gun is featured with a 1,000-gpm Akronmatic nozzle. T he hose bed was specified to be 54 inches from the ground for better access to the 1,200 feet of 5-inch hose, Matthew says. The traditional tailboard was eliminated. The unit has a polypropylene water tank that holds 500 gallons. Other features include a hydraulic ladder rack that lowers and presents ground ladders in front of the right-side compartments, with warning lights to prevent injuries when the rack is down.
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To meet its growth demands and provide additional versatility to fireground operations, the Corona, California Fire Department chose a pumper with telescopic waterway for its Station 4, whose area is a mix of residential and commercial occupancies, says Operations Officer Marcus H. Billington. Engine 4 is an Emergency One rearengined HUSH pumper, which features a midship-mounted 55-foot Teleboom waterway. The boom has a 3-inch feed pipe on each side, terminating at a 1,000-gpm remote control nozzle. The outrigger spread is 9 feet 11 inches and the load capacity at the tip of the boom is 800 lbs.
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The unit has a 200-inch wheelbase and a cab that seats six. It is powered by a Detroit 8V 92TA diesel engine with an Allison automatic transmission. The rear-mounted engine keeps excessive noise out of the cab. The aluminum body has 12 tool compartments.
The pump, a Hale 1500-gpm single-stage, has a preconnected front intake and two 1 ¾-inch “jump lines” in the front bumper. There are two transverse lines and a prepiped deck gun, which can flow up to 1,250 gpm. The hose bed has 1,600 feet of 3-inch hose.
The unit carries 500 gallons of water and has a 40-gallon AFFF tank piped to 200 feet of preconnected line. Other features include rear-mounted Collins Spot/Flood lights, a Honda 6.5-kw gasoline-driven generator, and access steps to the boom.
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The town of Wood-Ridge, New Jersey (Bergen County) is about one square mile with steep hills at both borders and is essentially a residential community. Chief Paul Clemente says the department wanted a truck that could maneuver well through the streets, was powerful enough to make steep grades easily, had mobility to get around utility lines, and had the capability of battling fires calling for large volumes of water and ladder operations.
The ladder truck is a 100-foot Water Chief model built by the newly organized American La France on a Century 2000 chassis. The 4-door cab seats seven and has split canopy and rear door windows for added ventilation. The unit has a 253-inch wheelbase and is powered by a Detroit 8V 92TA diesel engine with Allison HT 740 automatic transmission. It is equipped with a Twin-flow, twostage 2,000-gpm pump mainly for self supply of the Akron bed ladderpipe. A 4-inch pipe feeds the water to the turntable from the pump, after which it branches off to two pipes going up the sides of the aerial and to the nozzle. The pump also has a rear 6-inch intake connected to a tri-siamese and can act as a manifold for engine company attack lines, as it is normally in front of the fire building. Breathing air is piped to the aerial and an Elkhart flysection ladderpipe is carried and can also be mounted if needed.
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