APPARATUS DELIVERS
Hartly, Delaware, a farm community with a population of 111 in town has placed in service two major pieces of fire apparatus.
Fire Chief Dwayne Nickerson explains that the department covers 55 square miles, and provide mutual aid to neighboring areas. Although the small business district in Hartly doesn’t have tall buildings, the department chose a new Telesqurt to provide easy access to roofs and high-elevation master stream for large fires, particularly on farms. Also, nearby towns have some larger buildings. The unit is also used to cam’ rescue tools, which include an air-bag system.
The 50-foot Telesqurt is built by Snorkel Economy and is mounted on a Pierce Lance chassis with cab seating for 10 and a 201-inch wheelbase. The unit has a Waterous, 1,500-gpm pump and carries 500 gallons of water. Four 1 Vi-inch attack lines can be advanced from the pumper, and it carries 1,200 feet of four-inch supply hose.
The Telesqurt is provided with an automatic nozzle capable of 200to 1,200-gpm. The outrigger spread for the boom system is 40 inches from each side of the vehicle. Other equipment and features include a six-kw Onan diesel generator, two banks of Federal Night Fighter floodlights, storage for six SCBA and extra bottles, plus nine tool and equipment compartments.
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The second piece of apparatus is a 5,000-gallon elliptical tanker built by Four Guys on a Spartan Gladiator chassis with a four-door tilt cab. A 1,500-gpm American Godiva pump is mounted on an extended front bumper. The tanker is for water supply and other support, according to the Chief. The custom cab was chosen for its style and ability to carry six personnel. The tank is stainless steel.
The pump has one preconnected handline, four three-inch and one four-inch dischargers. In the rear is a six-inch intake with a fourinch Storz connection. Some three-inch supply hose as well as 500 feet of four-inch I.DH is carried. (Photos by Dan Decher.)
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Coon Rapids, Minnesota, is a suburb located northwest of Minneapolis along the Mississippi River. The city covers 23 square miles and has a growing population currently at about 50,000.
According to Assistant Chief Timothy E. Farmer, the fire department’s new Emergency One Hush pumper was bought with the emphasis on safety and complying with NFPA 1 500 standards. The driver and crew are located on the inside of the four-door cab, which also incorporates the top-mounted pump control panel. The entire area has supplemental heating and cooling.
Ground ladders and pike poles are carried on top of the hoscbed in a hydraulically powered rack that lowers to the right of the vehicle; this arrangement frees-up the right side for added compartments The unit has a Hale QSMGT, 1,500-gpm, single-stage pump to address increasing industrial and commercial businesses in the city, including a proposed regional shopping mall of about one million square feet. The pumper carries 500 gallons of water in a plastic tank and has a six-inch intake on each side of the pump. It carries 500 feet of five-inch hose. Preconnected lines are off the rear of the pumper and consist of 150 feet of 2Vi-inch hose on the right side and two 200-foot lines of 1 Vi-inch hose wyed front a 2Vi-inch left, rear discharge. Three-inch piping feeds an Elkhart Stinger deck gun mounted above the pump and behind the raised roof of the cab. nitunit scats six.
The body has 13 tool and equipment compartments, carries a Honda fivc-kw gasoline generator and mounts two 500-watt quartz floodlights behind the cab. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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The Louisville, Kentucky, Division of Fire operates this hazardous materials unit at Engine 15, which is the haz-mat company.
Shop Superintendent Paul J. Hawk explains that the apparatus was designed to allow personnel ready access to all equipment necessary for mitigation of a haz-mat incident.
One major change made after the delivery of the unit was the installation of full-length horizontal shelving on which all I.evel A, gas-tight encapsulating suits are carried. This was done to eliminate the stress points and abrasion that the suits are subjected to during transit.
[Titvehicle was built by Betten Rol-Up on a GMC Top Kick chassis with a 167-inch wheelbase and cab seating for two. The body features eight roll-up compartments plus a command module in the rear with on-board computer equipment and microfiche readers.
Other features include four 500-watt Churchill telescoping floodlights. a 7.5-kw Onan diesel generator, a six-bottle air cascade system, and a front mounted three-ton winch.
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Pierre, the capital of South Dakota, is nestled along the Missouri River and is served entirely by volunteer firefighters. It has a population of 13,000 in an area of 12 square miles.
The fire department’s new Custom Fire pumper features a rearmounted pump. According to Chief Engineer James L. Gordon, an engine with a rear-mounted pump offers the availability of more compartment space; the advantage of carrying 750 gallons of water, instead of 5(H), in a tank that is mounted lower and forward for better weight distribution; simplification of hose layouts so that lines are hooked up immediately after coming out of the bed; and protection of the pump operator from the noise of the engine. Also, PFD procedures call for its first-due pumper to position itself just ahead of the fire building.
The unit is mounted on a Spartan Gladiator chassis having a 181inch wheelbase and featuring a four-door tilt cab with seating for eight. It has a Waterous, CMUP, two-stage, 1,500-gpm pump with side intakes only. A five-inch discharge is located on the right side, and 1,000 feet of five-inch hose is carried.
There are four 2’/2-inch discharges below the hose bed plus one that is preconnected. A pair of two-inch discharges for 1 ¾-inch hose are featured in crosslays. A four-inch pipe from the pump is provided for an Elkhart Stinger deck gun.
The body, built by Custom Fire Apparatus, Inc., has six compartments providing storage in excess of 181 cubic feet. A 7.5-kw Onan diesel generator is carried with two 500-watt portable floodlights and two 1,500 Tele-Lites. A right side compartment alongside the hose bed carries two lengths of hard suction hose and 53 feet of ground ladders.
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The Redings Mill Volunteer Fire Protection District in northern Newton County, Missouri, has this Marco mini-pumper in service.
According to Firefighter David Wunderlin, the unit was purchased to provide versatility in response capabilities. The department serves a 110-square-mile area and operates out of four stations. The district includes a rapidly expanding suburban area divided by a major interstate and state highway; the remaining area comprises remote rural communities.
The pumper is mounted on a Ford F-350, six-wheel-drive chassis. The equipment on the unit includes two independent Hale pumps supplied by a 300-gallon booster tank. The first is a 27-gpm highpressure pump with preconnected foam eductor system plumbed to a booster reel with 200 feet of hose. The second is a 50-gpm pump with a 1 ½-inch preconnected hoseline.
Other features include a rear-mounted pump panel, a body with six equipment compartments, twin Collins extendable spot/floodlights, and an extended front bumper with a four-ton Pierce winch. (Photo by David Wunderlin.)
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The city’ of Rialto, California, has a population of more than 70,000 and is located at the foot of the San Bernardino Mountains, 50 miles east of Los Angeles. The city’s fire department has four stations, with plans for a fifth.
The new tanker, built by Central States Fire Apparatus. Inc., was designed by computer by Captain Thomas Cloud and Firefighter Steven Cunningham of Station 3-
The tanker is mounted on an International Navistar 4800 Series with a crew cab and a 4 x 4 chassis with a 218-inch wheelbase. The four-door cab scats five.
It has a Darley HE single-stage, 350-gpm rear-mounted pump that has an independent 59-hpJohn Deere engine pump-and-roll capability. The unit has two 2‘/2-inch intakes plus four discharges (two 2Viand two 1 Vi-inch) and a three-inch ball tank to pump valve.
The tanker has a 1,000-gallon stainless steel water tank and carries 500 feet of 1 Vi-inch hose. Two lines of 1 Vi-inch hose are preconnected in the transverse walk-thru area.
There are two compartments in the body and more space under the rear seat. Two booster reels, carrying 200 feet of one-inch hose for mop-up operations, are recessed in the body. (Photo by Chuck Madderom.)
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Maple Ridge. British Columbia, Canada bought its first pumper equipped with a large-diameter hose reel in 1987. The department now has a third one in service, and Deputy Chief/Inspector Richard Purdey says that anyone using fouror five-inch hose should consider such reels based on his department’s satisfaction with them.
The pumper, built by Anderson Engineering on a Mack MR-688P tilt-cab chassis, seats five and has a 187-inch wheelbase.
With the exception of the front, the vehicle has a four-inch intake on all sides plus two 2’/i-inch intakes on the right and left. A four-inch discharge is mounted on the right side and the front bumper. The front bumper has a box for four-inch hose and carries an Akron Apollo appliance. A similar appliance is prepiped and located behind the top-mounted pump panel. Both sides of the pumper have 2¼inch discharges. Attack lines consist of three 1 Vvinch preconnects on the right side and two 1 -Vi-inch preconnects and a 1 Vi-inch foam line on the left side. (Photo by Dave Stewardson.)
The Rural/Metro Fire Department of Knox County, Tennessee, is operating this Pierce Dash pumper in the Concord area. It replaces a large tanker-pumper in station 10, which covers a primarily residential community with some commercial and light industry. About 75 percent of the station’s calls are EMS-related.
The pumper is the Dash D-8000 with a wheelbase of 1 56 inches and cab seating for five personnel. The unit is of all-aluminum construction. The pump is a Waterous CS 1,250-gpm, single-stage featuring a rear three-inch intake in addition to normal side intakes. There is a 2 Vi-inch attack line at the rear and two 1 Winch attack lines in crosslays.
There are nine tool compartments in the body. (Photo by Jay Thomson.)
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Nogales, Arizona, is situated in a canyon that has two streets in the center. Branching off are many narrow streets, which are sometimes impossible to get through with large apparatus. There also are 20 square miles of jurisdiction outside the city comprised of hills, gullies, and other canyons with lots of brush.
According to Chief Alfred L. Paredes, the department’s two Marco quick-attack units are used to lay hose down the narrow streets and handle firefighting in the rough terrain, saving wear and tear on the full-size pumpers. They also provide mutual aid to all fire departments within the county and to Nogales Sonora, Mexico.
The units are mounted on Ford F-350 chassis and seat three. Each has a Hale 20FD 200-gpm pump and carries 300 gallons of water in a fiberglass tank. The pump has a 2V$-inch intake with two l’/z-inch discharges plus piping to a reel with 200 feet of one-inch highpressure hose. Two hundred feet of 1 ½-inch hose also is carried.
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Charlestown, Maryland, is a small waterfront community on the Northeast River at the head of Chesapeake Bay. The town is very old and has very small streets. Therefore, according to Assistant Chief Gary R. Bott, the department needed a unit with a short wheelbase and also wanted a cab to scat six and a pumper to carry 1,000 gallons of water. Until the water system being built in the town is completed, the fire department will depend on the river for its water supply.
The pumper is a Grumman Panther II with four-door tilt cab. It has a 150-inch wheelbase. It carries 40 gallons of foam and has a 1,250gpm, single-stage Waterous pump. It has four lJ/4-inch preconi nected attack lines —two in crosslays and two in the rear hosebed. j There is a 3 Vi-inch discharge for five-inch hose on the right side of the vehicle. The unit also has a three-inch direct pipe to an Akron Apollo 1,000-gpm monitor that can be detached and ground fed with five-inch hose, 1,500 feet of which are carried. There are eight storage compartments in the body.
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