APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Howell (MI) Fire Department serves a 136-square-mile area with about 35,000 residents. Deputy Chief jim Reed explains that the area is rapidly growing with industrial buildings, apartments, and single-family housing, which promoted their need for an elevating platform.
They took delivery of a 102-foot Grumman Aerial-Cat, which features a 4-door Panther cab that seats seven. It has a 248-inch wheelbase and 12 tool and equipment compartments.
The Waterous, two-stage, 1,500-gpm pump feeds two discharges for 1 1/2-inch crosslays and a 5-inch waterway to the platform, which features two 1,000-gpm Akron nozzles (one remote, one manual). The platform has an 800-lb. payload capacity, and the outrigger spread is 18 feet
The unit has a built-in 6-kw Onan diesel generator and has four 500-watt Churchville telescoping quartz floodlights. It also has a 1 50gallon water tank and carries 600 feet of 5-inch hose.
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The Concord Township (IN) Volunteer Fire Department operates a fleet of two pumpers, two pumper-tankers, one tanker, and one squad and provides protection for about 15,000 people in a 20square-mile urban area.
According to Fire Chief Peter Rheinhcimer, about three years of planning went into the design of their new Sutphen pumper-tanker, with emphasis placed on efficiency and safety.
“The truck gives us a three-way combination,” says the chief. “With about 30 percent of the township covered by hydrants, the 2,000 feet of 5-inch hose gives an impressive hydrant extension. W ith a 2,500-gallon water tank, 10-inch Newton dump valve, 3,000gallon Fold-a-tank, and 2 1/2-inch and 4-inch rear tank fills, it works well in a tanker shuttle. With two 1 Vi-inch crosslays with 2-inch piping and the 2 1/2-inch speedlays with 3-inch piping, combined with five 4.5 SCBA, a 30-foot extension ladder, and a positive-pressure ventilation fan, the unit can serve as a full attack pumper.”
Jumpseat enclosures and a top-mount pump control panel arcfeatured for safety. The unit has a Hale, single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump with four 3-inch side suctions in addition to standard, and two 2½inch and 5-inch side discharges—all with Span Flowmeters with Totalizers. A 3-inch, prepiped Flkhart “Stinger” appliance is also featured. Other safety considerations resulted in all disc brakes; under-truck and step lighting; front, rear, and side strobe lights; a Federal Crossfire light; and a 77-inch Code 3 light bar with Stinger.
Tlie unit has a 5-seat custom cab, a 232-inch wheelbase, two 1,000watt floodlights, and a 6.5-kw Onan generator. (Photo by Pete Rheinhcimer.)
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Newark, New’ Jersey’s largest city, has placed in service seven apparatus from Emergency One including this Cyclone pumper with a 50-foot, three-section telescoping boom and waterway.
Construction in New ark consists of about 80 percent wood-frame structures located close to one another, according to Fire Commissioner Stanley Kossup. “Because of age, construction, and closeness, fires have a habit of fast spread. We needed an apparatus to combat this condition. The ‘squirts’ were an answer to this problem. | Newark is in its second generation of pumpers with telescoping waterways and presently has four in first-line service.] This type of apparatus offers flexibility of delivery of water for interior and exterior attack, elevation to high levels, and a hydraulic control of master streams from the ground and the boom.”
The pumper has seating for five and is 31 feet, 8 inches long. The aluminum body has six tool compartments and three SCBA compartments with rollup doors.
It has a Hale QLC, 1,250-gpm, two-stage pump. The 1,000-gpm boom nozzle is fed through two 3-inch pipes. The outrigger spread is three feet on each side of the vehicle.
Other features include two 500-watt telescoping floodlights, a preconnected 5-inch front intake with external gate valve, a 4-inch discharge, a 500-gallon water tank, and 600 feet of 4-inch hose. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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