APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Hollandtown Fire Department in Kaukauna, Wisconsin, protects a 25-square-mile rural area that has many large farms, which call for trucking large amounts of water for barn fires. This is where their tanker, built by Badger Northland, Inc., is very useful, says Chief Raymond Haen.
Built on a Mack R chassis and powered by a Mack 300 diesel engine with Mack 5-speed standard transmission, the unit is very maneuverable for its size and can unload from 2-to 10-inch Newton dump valves at a rate of 1,500 gpm, according to Chief Haen. The 3,000-gallon tanker has two fill pipes, one 2 1/2-inch and one 4-inch with Storz coupling, affording a fill time at the station of less than two minutes. A 250-gpm portable pump is carried, along with two 2,100-gallon and one 900-gallon folding dump tanks and 100 feet of 3-inch hose. The tanker has a wheelbase of 184 inches and has two equipment compartments.
Chief Haen says that with mutual aid the Hollandtown Fire Department has saved many barns from burning into the basement, which, he says, is the most costly portion of the structure.
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Chatham Township, New Jersey is a community of 8,000 that encompasses 8 square miles. The volunteer fire department owns its own equipment and, according to Chief Pete Shephard, was faced with problems stemming from low-risc condominiums built on hills, some of which have up to 15 percent grades and setbacks of 70 to 80 feet. So instead of purchasing an aerial device, the department opted for a quadruple combination unit with a full complement of ground ladders.
The quad is built by Pierce Manufacturing on a Mack CF chassis, has a 4-door cab, and is powered by a Mack 350-hp diesel engine. It is equipped with a Waterous 1,250-gpm pump featuring a 4-inch discharge, a Span flowmeter, and a prepiped deck gun. A preconnected front intake with mechanical butterfly valve provides an easy hookup.
The steel body has a 600-gallon water tank and carries 185-feet of ground ladder stored mostly under the hose bed. The unit carries 2,000 feet of 4-inch hose and has crosslay and rear preconnect designs for 600 feet of 1 3/4-inch hose and 300 feet of 2 1/2-inch hose. Members praise this preconnect capability and the safety of an enclosed cab. The vehicle is equipped with air disc brakes and was built to be no higher than 110 inches in order to fit into the firehouse. (Photo by Peter Shephard.)
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The city of New Haven, Connecticut operates two tactical units, each normally manned by an officer and four firefighters. They fill a manpower requirement on box alarms as well as answer emergency calls.
The new apparatus, built by Marion Body, has nine tool compartments. The first behind the cab is transverse and the second holds a supply of 1 1/2-inch hose for quick hookup to an pumper and for an additional attack line. A 3-kw Onan diesel generator and 18 spare SCBA cylinders are also carried, as are two rear 500-watt telescoping floodlights.
The four-door cab allows all crew members to ride together, giving the officer more control over them. Three SCBAs are mounted within the seats of the cab.
This unit is built on an International Harvester Navistar chassis; has a 188-inch wheelbase; and is powered by an International Model DT466C, 215-lip diesel engine and Allison Model MT-643 automatic transmission. The step tank is covered with aluminum treadplate with a 200-lb. battery roll-out tray below the left crew door for easy maintenance. The body is all aluminum.
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With the expansion of the Philadelphia Expressway, Pottstown, Pennsylvania is growing—the traffic has increased 200 percent. For this reason and because the town sits on the border of three counties with varied communications frequencies, the Goodwill Fire, Ambulance and Rescue Company replaced its 15-year-old rescue truck with one that also has a communications unit capability, according to Chief Richard C. Lengal.
The unit is built on a Mack MC tilt cab chassis and has a 20-foot Swab rescue body. It can seat two personnel in the cab and five within the body. The vehicle has a 180-inch wheelbase.
The truck has a complete command center with three radios (194 channels), a cellular phone, four portable radios, and three operation command positions. The roof of the body also can be used as an observation deck.
Other features include a 20-foot light tower with 6,000 watts of quartz lights, a 12-kw Onan diesel generator, 2,000 watts each of body mounted and portable lights, and three cable reels. Also included are two 10-ton hydraulic winches, an air cascade system, an oxygen system, ground ladders, and assorted rescue tools. The truck has 12 main equipment compartments.
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The city of Ormond Beach is located on the east coast of central Florida and covers 25 square miles with a population of 32,000.
Driver/Engineer Kenneth G. Bertholf Jr. says the department bought its new Telesqurt pumper for an area west of the city that has undergone some annexations and for the rest of the town, which has many two-story residences with cedar shake shingles. It wanted the capability of an elevated master stream on an attack pumper. Compartment space also was designed for carrying EMS equipment, as members will be operating basic life support engines in the near future.
The pumper is built on a Pierce Arrow chassis and has a 192-inch wheelbase. The 50-foot Telesqurt is built by Snorkel/Economy and has an Akronmatic 1,000-gpm nozzle. Water is delivered through the vehicle’s Waterous. two-stage, 1,250-gpm pump through a four-inch pipe that branches off into two 2 1/2-inch waterways up the boom. There also are two multiuse inlet/discharges in the rear for outside feeding of the tower or for hoselines if the tower is not being used. The Telesqurt has a 40-foot horizontal reach, an 800-lb. tip load, and an outrigger spread of 10 feet.
The pumper carries 500 gallons of water and 1,200 feet of threeinch hose. Crosslays consist of three 1 3/4-inch attack lines and a 2 1/2-inch supply line. The pumper is equipped with a 3-kw Onan diesel generator and two North Star extendable 500-watt floodlights. (Photo by Ken Bertholf Jr.)
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The city of Loma Linda, located in southern California, is 7.5 square miles in area with a permanent population of 15,000, which increases to about 45,000 in the daytime. The city has two high-rise hospitals and a community hospital. The Southern Pacific Railroad and Interstate 10 traverse the city. Loma Linda University is also within the boundaries.
The department’s new rescue truck is built by Supervac on a Chevrolet C-70 with a conventional cab seating two or three. It has a 179-inch wheelbase and 11 equipment compartments in its body. A special feature is a 20-foot hydraulic light mast with six 500-watt quartz lamps. The mast has a 40-gallon hydraulic fluid reservoir. It also has a cascade system with storage for 36 spare SCBA bottles. (Photo by Stephen E. Simons.)
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The Montgomery County Collapse Rescue Team responds to collapse incidents in the county and neighboring jurisdictions, explains Lieutenant Tom Carr of the Rockville, Maryland Fire Department.
The team is comprised of 50 firefighters who are also either paramedics or EMT-As, all trained in trench rescue, structural collapse, and special rescue situations. The unit and team are designed to be self-contained for prolonged incidents.
The vehicle they employ is a Galbreath container or “pod” carried on an American Roll-Off hydraulic system manufactured by Automated Waste Equipment Company. The system, similar to that used in Europe, is mounted on a Mack CS conventional chassis.
A pod can be delivered and then rolled off in about 30 seconds. Carr says that the pod system allows them to purchase one chassis for a number of functions, reducing vehicle costs and maintenance. The roll-off separates from the truck, freeing it up to return for another pod.
Pods are available for cave-in, structural collapse, spill control, and confined space. Pod length is recommended to be between 10 to 12 feet. The hoist length is up to 16 feet with capacities of 20,000 to 30,000 lbs.
Rockville’s cave-in pod has a wire harness, enabling it to be lifted by helicopter or crane in areas of limited access. The vehicle carries a Homelite 5-kw gasoline generator and has two 500-watt tripod lights.
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The Kingston, Rhode Island Fire District is made up of volunteers and covers the University of Rhode Island. It replaced a 75-foot aerial truck with a 100-foot model to reach an eight-story high-rise building and dormitories, which are hard to access, explains Assistant Chief Doug Burhoe.
The Seagrave rear-mounted aerial truck features the new Model “L” cab, which is low profile and four door with seating for seven. The ladder sits between the rear cab sections.
The unit has a 227-inch wheelbase and the outrigger spread for operation of the 100-foot, four-section steel aerial ladder is 150 inches. There are seven Collins FX-12 spot/floodlights carried on the unit, two of which are mounted at the tip of the aerial’s fly section. An Akron model 1496 portable ladderpipe is included.
The vehicle has 18 tool compartments and mounts a direct-drive Onan 7-kw diesel generator operating from the truck’s 50-gallon fuel tank. It is prewired to two Churchville 500-watt quartz lights and eight outlets.
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The Bloomfield, New Mexico Volunteer Fire Department has within its jurisdiction four natural gas plants, a gasoline refiner), five large schools, and many churches. The continued construction of schools and churches necessitated the purchase of an apparatus to provide aerial operations for fire suppression and ventilation. Thus it purchased an Emergency One Cyclone pumper with 55-foot telescoping boom. The boom nozzle can deliver 1,000 gpm for protection of the bulk plants and refiner)
The apparatus has a Hale two-stage, 1,500-gpm pump and carries 300 gallons of water and 40 gallons of foam. It has a bumper-mounted booster reel and a 4 1/2-inch intake up front.
A special feature is a fiber optic control line that allows remote control of the boom nozzle 50 feet from the apparatus. The unit also has two 1 1/2-inch and two 2 1/2-inch preconnected crosslays and a fiveinch discharge on the pump panel. It carries 700 feet of five-inch hose.
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South Orange, New Jersey, home of Seton Hall University, is a community of approximately 17,000 that grows to 27,000 during the school year. It has many narrow streets and heavy traffic congestion in some sections. The fire station is more than 65 years old and has many unique architectural features, including low apparatus bay ceilings and arched doors. Structural changes to accommodate today’s larger apparatus could not be made without altering many of the station’s unique designs.
Fire Chief Pasquale Giordano says the department’s new ladder truck, which was to replace a 1963 service aerial, had to be extremely maneuverable, have a narrow setup stance, and have a low overall road height. In addition, the department wanted to increase its water flow capability as well as the versatility of the apparatus.
They purchased a Seagrave Fire Apparatus quint with a rearmounted, steel, 100-foot aerial ladder and a Waterous CMU 1,500-gpm two-stage pump. The unit carries 250 gallons of water. The unit features the low-profile WR cab and seats five. It has a raised canopy section for easier egress of jumpseat firefighters. The truck has a 230-inch wheelbase and the spread for the hydraulic outriggers is 150 inches.
The unit has a right-side 5-inch discharge and carries 800 feet of 5-inch hose. Because of height requirements, it has an Akron Ladderpipe rather than a prepiped waterway, and the turntable controls on the pedestal fold down. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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The Terryville Fire Department in Plymouth, Connecticut recently placed in service an FMC pumper mounted on a Duplex Vanguard tiltcab chassis. Plymouth, 26 square miles in size with a population of 11,500, is served totally by volunteers. Deputy Chief Paul Schwanka explains that being a typical New England town, it has many hills— the worst being one mile long with a 20 percent grade. For this reason they purchased a diesel, automatic, turbo-charged engine with an engineered rear end.
The unit has a Hale single-stage 1,500-gpm pump and carries 1,000 gallons of water. Hydrants cover 30 percent of the town, according to the chief, and the rest is rural. Special rural applications of the new apparatus include an electric, adjustible 5-inch intake controlled at the pump panel. A 10-inch rear Newton dump valve for use with a portable tank and 1,800 feet of 5-inch hose have both city and rural applications. The pump panel is color-coded for operator ease with color-coordinated preconnected hoselines. A 3 1/2-inch prepiped Akron Stinger with 1,000-gpm nozzle is used for a blitz attack or a master stream. (Photo by Mark A. Redman.)
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Ayer, Massachusetts is a rapidly growing town located about 35 miles west of Boston. It is primarily a residential area, integrated with manufacturing and warehouses. It has a major railroad that goes through the center of town and has a New England Power Converter Station under its jurisdiction. This station converts DC power to AC power.
The department’s new rescue truck is built by Emergency One on a CMC C70042 chassis and has a 149-inch wheelbase. The cab has a seating capacity of three, and four personnel can be seated in the body.
The aluminum rescue body has seven exterior compartments and three interior ones. It has a front-mounted, 4-ton Ramsey electric winch and carries a 4-cylinder 4,500-psi cascade system with double fill station. (Photo by W. Parker.)
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