APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The town of Menasha, Wisconsin, is an urban community of about 15,000 people within 12 square miles. It is heavily industrialized on the west side and predominantly residential with an abundance of garden apartments on the east side.
Fire Chief Gregg A. Cleveland says the department’s Pierce pumper was designed with two major functions in mind: to provide a large, flexible water supply to suppress fires in the truss areas of lightweight construction garden apartments and to handle fires on a recently constructed expressway.
The pumper is mounted on an Arrow chassis with a four-door cab and seating for seven. The unit has a 1,250-gpm Waterous pump and a swiveling six-inch front intake. There are 1 ‘Vinch and three-inch handlines with straight-tip nozzles for reach and penetration into voids created by truss webs. A I ½-inch discharge mounted in the front bumper is for highway vehicle fires, eliminating the booster reel.
for added visibility five bar-type warning lights are mounted on the vehicle (three on the cab roof and two at the rear), and the insides of the two rear compartment doors are equipped with reflective arrows that direct traffic away from the apparatus. Other warning lights are mounted on the body and side of the extended front bumper t he air horns and siren are also bumper-mounted to reduce cab noise. Two 500-watt quartz halogen telescoping floodlights are mounted at the rear of the cab.
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The Lakeville (MN) lire Department serves a population of about 2 t,000 covering 36 square miles. Staffed by 70 volunteers from three fire stations, its heavy rescue possibilities emerge from Interstate Highway 35 (a major north south trucking route), railroad service to an industrial park, and an airport located in the city.
According to Assistant Chief Danny Barth, the department’s 1979 vintage 1 4-foot step van no longer was able to earn the weight of the equipment it maintains, so this replacement rescue truck, built by Custom Fire Apparatus, features a 16-foot aluminum all-bolted squad body mounted on an International 4900 conventional chassis. There is seating for two in the cab and four in the body.
There are eight exterior and seven interior tool and equipment compartments featuring stainless steel roll-out trays. The unit is equipped with air-conditioning, 120-volt fluorescent lights, 12-volt interior light fixtures, and blue “crew response” lights above four recessed SCBA fitted seats. For command post capability, a 36-inch desk is provided with a 16-channel radio and cellular phone mounted nearby. The truck has a seven-kw, gasoline-powered Kohler generator and two Kwik-Raze 1,500-watt extendable quartz floodlights mounted at the rear of the rescue body. (Photos by Red Novecki.)
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Fire Chief Dan Ford of the Clay (NY) Fire Department wanted an “extra punch” when planning the department’s new’ aerial apparatus, which would be the first for the town. It w’as needed to deal with the rapid growth in the commercial and retail sectors.
‘ITie planning resulted in a quint apparatus built by Emergency One featuring an 80-foot, three-section aluminum aerial ladder; 181 feet of ground ladders; a Hale, QSMG, single-stage, 2,000-gpm pump; a 300-gallon water tank; and 1,050 feet of four-inch hose.
The unit is mounted on a Hurricane chassis with a 220-inch wheelbase and a four-door cab with seating for eight. Other features include a rear intake for four-inch hose feeding a four-inch waterpipe on the aerial connected to an Akron heavy-stream appliance, a 13foot outrigger spread, four crosslays (three 1 ⅛-inch and one 2½inch). 14 tool and equipment compartments, wheel-well storage for spare SCBA tanks. Federal Night Fighter lights, a Span flowmeter on the ladder waterway, and a David W. Clark communication system.
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Engine Company 6 of the Toledo (OH) Fire Department uses this Emergency One Hush pumper with 50-foot telescoping waterway.
Fire Maintenance Officer Richard Vogelbacher explains that the engineless cab eliminates noise and heat plus the physical obstruction, allowing the firefighters to enter and exit from either side of the vehicle.
The pumper, with seating for six. has a 200-inch wheelbase. It has a Hale QSMGT 1,500-gpm, single-stage pump and carries 500 gallons of water. The pump has a three-inch right side discharge with fiveinch Storz adaptor. Four-inch piping branches off to two three-inch pipes to feed the boom waterway to a 1,000-gpm Akron model 3478 nozzle. The nozzle can be removed to create a standpipe.
The department specified two 1 ¼-inch crosslays mounted in the front bumper extension, which allows attack lines to be advanced from either side or the front and simplifies loading and shoulder packing. In addition, there is no disruption to the pump operator or an obstacle created by the supply line.
Rear shoots allow the company to lay LDH smoothly rather than drop it from the traditional height. Additional pulling can be accomplished from waist height with oncoming couplings in view at all times. There are 12 tool compartments and four SCBA bottle compartments. Roll-up doors allow access in tight areas and eliminate the chance of damage.
Other features include a Jacobs Brake, which reduces general wear and tear on the brake system and excessive heat buildup on long runs, plus Span Flowmindcr gauges on the pump panel, which displayexact flow rates and negate the need for charts and friction loss calculations.
The vehicle carries 800 feet of five-inch hose, 750 feet of threeinch hose. 200 feet of preconnected 2 ‘/2-inch hose, and 100 feet of one-inch trash line. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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■ Kerrville, Texas, located in the hill country of Kerr Count}65 miles west of San Antonio off Interstate 10, has a population of 19,000. It is a city with large and modern retail outlets, a four-year college, two hospitals, nursing homes, retirement centers, a cowboy museum, an aircraft factory, and a hunting area for domestic and imported exotic game.
Chief Raymond Holloway and Assistant Chief Raymond Tennison report that they bought their Sutphen aerial platform to address rescue capability for the hospitals plus for water rescue from the Guadalupe River; the platform can be lowered below zero degrees elevation.
The truck has a two-door aluminum cab and a 2 40-inch wheelbase. A Hale, QSMG, single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump is featured with discharges for two 1 ½-inch midship crosslays and a five-inch feed that can deliver 1,500 gpm to the 95-foot platform. I he platform has a payload capacity of 800 pounds and is equipped with piped air and intercom.
The apparatus has a 300-gallon water tank and carries 800 feet of five-inch hose. It has 160 cubic feet of compartment space and mounts a six-kw Onan diesel generator. There arc three 500-watt Extend-a-Lites (two on the cab roof, one on the platform).
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■ In Hackensack, New Jersey, Fire Chief Ronald Freeman wanted a longer ladder to reach the city’s high-rise buildings. For severe winters he also wanted a more durable truck body. The department chose a Scagrave 110-foot rear-mounted aerial ladder with stainless steel body and cab. It replaces a 75-foot telescoping platform, which is now in reserve.
The unit is built on a J-model chassis with 247-inch wheelbase and a four-door air-conditioned cab that seats seven. The aerial has a fourinch piped waterway fed by a four-inch rear intake feeding a 1,000gpm remote control ladderpipe. The outrigger spread is 16 feet.
There arc 18 tool compartments in the body, and the truck is equipped with an Onan 7.5-kw diesel generator. It has two 1,500watt Collins side-mounted floodlights behind the cab and four Collins FX-12 spot/floodlights mounted on the aerial ladder.
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