APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The town of Lantana, located on the southeast coast of Florida in Palm Beach County, operates an Emergency-One quint as its only aerial piece.
The unit, built on a Hurricane chassis with seating for five, mounts an 80-foot aluminum, three-section aerial ladder and has a wheelbase of 210 inches and an aluminum body with 11 tool compartments.
Oscar Wiltse, EMS coordinator, explains that the need for this apparatus is twofold: because of the recent development of valuable oceanfront condominiums and a fire protection contract with a hospital outside the town limits. Lantana also provides service to four other adjoining communities that encompass the intracoastal waterway, a beach on the Atlantic Ocean, two rail lines, highway 1-95, and a prison facility.
The quint has a Detroit 6V-92 diesel engine and Allison HT-740 automatic transmission. It has a Hale, QSMG 1,500-gpm, single-stage pump and carries 300 gallons of water. It carries 900 feet of 5-inch hose. The electronically controlled Akron Auto-Fog nozzle is rated for 1,000 gpm and is fed through a 4-inch pipe. A rear feed is equipped with a Storz connection.
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The Senatobia, Mississippi Fire Department, in an old Civil War town about 30 miles south of Memphis, Tennessee off 1-55, operates a quint mounted on a Pierce Arrow chassis. It has seating for five and a 200-inch wheelbase. It is powered by a Detroit 6V-92TA diesel engine with Allison HT-740 automatic transmission.
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The quint has a Waterous, CSU, single-stage 1,500-gpm pump and carries 350 gallons of water. It has a rear-mounted, 75-fbot aerial with a control console at its base and a remote control on the ladder. There are two 50-foot sections of 1 3/4-inch hose—one on each side of the fly section with respective 1 1/2-inch discharges located behind the master stream nozzle. Payload capacity is 400 pounds at the tip.
With the recent development of 200 acres of new industrial land south of the town, the department felt purchasing this unit would fulfill both present and future needs, as it is easily maneuvered through old and new streets, according to Firefighter Jerry W. Taylor.
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The city of Glen Cove, New York recently replaced aging equipment with apparatus manufactured by Scagrave.
One unit, a pumper, is designed to be either a first-attack piece or a supply unit stationed at a hydrant. It has a Waterous two-stage 1,500gpm pump and carries 500 gallons of water. It is outfitted with a front intake and also has a quick attack line consisting of 75 feet of 1 ‘/2-inch hose preconnected in the front of the vehicle and stored in the bumper compartment. The unit carries a prepiped Stang gun and is equipped with two 500-watt telescoping quartz floodlights.
The second unit, a tractor-drawn aerial ladder truck, has 40 tool and equipment compartments within the tractor and a fully enclosed trailer. Some compartments have slide-out trays. The ground ladder nest is enclosed by double doors.
The unit is equipped with a four-door H-model tractor and has a 100-foot, heavy-duty steel ladder with a piped waterway of four inches that reduces to three inches and feeds a ladderpipc with Akronmatic 750-pm nozzle. There are two 3 1/2-inch preconnected intakes at the turntable and an air system that feeds a firefighter on the aerial. Glen Cove wanted the aerial truck in part for its maneuverability and its compartments, which preserve the life of the tools and equipment by keeping them out of the weather.
Both units have Detroit 8V-92TA diesel engines and Allison HT740 automatic transmissions.
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The city Toledo, Ohio recently purchased SeaArk Marine’s 28′ fire rescue boat for fire control on 40 miles of waterfront on l.ake Erie and the Maumee River.
Made out of all-welded aluminum, the boat is powered by twin 225 HP OMC gasoline outboard engines that propel the boat at speeds over 40 mph. A fully enclosed cabin houses a center console control station, heater/defroster, pilot seat, bench seat, worktable, hanging locker, and provisions for a stokes liter.
The boat’s fire system is powered by a V6 Chevy Marine engine coupled to a Waterous CXVT fire pump. The single-stage pump includes a stainless-steel shaft and bronze impeller.
Additional options include hydraulic steering, 150-gallon fuel capacity, side dive gate, siren and FA system, and VHF radio.
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The Lake Saint Louis, Missouri Fire Department recently purchased a Five Star Pumper built by Saulsbury.
The pumper has an air-conditioned/heated tilt cab that seats 10, a midship-mounted pump with most connections at the front or rear, a fully electronic pump panel with manual backup, and an evenlydivided pumper-rescue body.
Lake Saint Louis is a six-square-mile district centered around two lakes, with two highways and a railroad going through it. Its force consists of three paid, one part-paid, and 27 volunteer firefighters. This unit was purchased for multi-service to eliminate the need for two responders, according to Chief Jeff Oldfield.
One side of the vehicle houses rescue equipment and the other pumper equipment. The cab has no partition between the driver and crew and has five seats equipped with SCBA facing front and rear. The cab is a Spartan Gladiator on a 190-inch wheelbased chassis, with a Cummins L-10 diesel engine and Allison MT-647 automatic transmission.
The body has 277 cubic feet of storage. The 1,500-gpm, singlestage Darley pump has a Fire Research, Inc. electronic panel at the rear of the apparatus, which is top-mounted and accessible from a side door located behind the rear axle. It carries 750 gallons of water and has a 6-inch front intake as well as side and rear intakes. There is a 1 1/2-inch front discharge and eight discharges of various sizes at the rear. Also rear-mounted is an Elkhart prepiped deck gun. Preconnected attack lines are led off the rear compartments.
The unit is also equipped with 1,800 feet of 5-inch hose, an 8-kw diesel generator, and a 6-ton Ramsey winch.
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Morristown, the hub and seat of Morris County, New Jersey, has a population of 20,000 and a business day population of more than 100,000. A number of highways converge at Morristown, which has corporate as well as historical buildings, busy mercantile districts, and a hospital. Morristown Airport, located about three miles from the main fire station, is also under the protective jurisdiction of the Morristown Fire Department. The department purchased a new Emergency Equipment, Inc. foam pumper to better service both the interstate and the airport, according to Fire Chief James Egbert.
The pumper is built on a Pemfab Royale chassis with a cab that holds six personnel. The 186-inch wheelbased vehicle has a Cummins LI0-320 diesel engine and an Allison HT-740 automatictransmission.
Photo by John M. Malecky
The pump is a Hale QSFA, 1,250-gpm, two-stage with a front 5-inch preconnected intake. The pumper carries 1,000 feet of 5-inch hose and 600 feet of 5-inch hose. Transverse attack line, a booster reel, and a prepiped 750-gpm deck gun are above the pump panel.
The unit has pump and roll capability, which allows application of foam while in motion. The roof-mounted Feecon foam turret is manually operated and the foam system, which carries 125 gallons of AFFF, is operated from a control panel on the cab’s dashboard.
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