APPARATUS DELIVERS
Prescott is located in the mountains of central Arizona and covers an area of 32 square miles. Prescott’s population is about 30,000 with an additional 20,000 to 30,000 people residing outside the city limits in a mutal-aid response area.
The city has a growing number of four- and five-story apartments, motels, and a five-story hospital complex. According to Fire Chief Ronald Prince, “A truck of this size is very maneuverable and easily handled in our mountainous community while serving our purposes. It responds to all alarms in its own district, all full first and greater alarms throughout the city, and all calls for mutual aid.”
The unit is a Sutphen Mini-Tower and has a Hale QSMG singlestage 1,500-gpm pump; a 300-gallon water tank; and 1,000 feet of 4inch hose. It has a four-door cab with seating for six personnel. The pump directly feeds a 3-inch pipe to an Akron deck gun with a 1,250 gpm nozzle and a 4-inch pipe to an Akron ladderpipe with a 1,000 gpm nozzle. Other discharges include a 4-inch on the right side, two for 1 ⅛-inch attack lines in crosstrays, and five 2 ½-inch.
The 75-foot Mini-Tower has a 12-foot outrigger spread and is rated for a 600-lb. payload with 1.000 gpm flowing. It is equipped with a Honda 3.5-kw unleaded gasoline generator and mo 500-watt North Star extendable spot/floodlights. The unit also carries a 444-cubic foot, 4500-psi air cylinder with step-down regulator for on-scene SCBA refills. The truck body has 17 tools and equipment compartments and is equipped for engine, truck, haz-mat, and paramedic calls.
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Riverview, Michigan is a suburb of Detroit with a population of about 15.000. It is part of a mutual-aid pact with 16 other municipalities. Within the town is a major chemical company and other light industries plus a 12-story senior citizens high-rise and seven 2½and 3-story apartment complexes. The fire station is manned by three firefighters and a dispatcher on a part-time basis with call personnel as a backup.
“We needed an apparatus that could do a multitude of things with the least amount of men on initial response,” says Captain Ken Williamson. “We were replacing a 1970 pumper equipped with a 50foot telescoping waterway and wanted an apparatus that would be compatible with our 1986 Pierce 1,250-gpm pumper.”
As a result, Riverview chose a Pierce Lance pumper-ladder truck featuring a Waterous CS single-stage 1,250-gpm pump; a 300-gallon water tank; and a 75-foot, 3-section steel aerial ladder with prepiped 4-inch waterway. Two 4-inch intakes are at the rear.
The apparatus has a 214-inch wheelbase, a 19-inch extended front bumper, and a 4-door tilt cab with seating for six. The body has 12 tool and equipment compartments, stores 800 feet of 4-inch hose, and mounts 153 feet of ground ladders. The truck has a 1,000-gpm nozzle at the tip of the ladder, two 1 ½-inch preconnected crosslays, and 300 feet of 2 1/2-inch attack line.
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The Honolulu, Hawaii Fire Department protects the entire island of Oahu (604 square miles). Administrative Services Officer Edward M.L Yee explains that the two rescue companies perform mountain and sea rescues in addition to responding to fires and highway accidents. During 1988-1989 the two units answered 3,822 rescue calls and saved 90 lives.
The rescue trucks are designed to handle the geographic condtionsof Oahu and meet the needs of the community. They each tow a 21-foot Boston Whaler with two 100-hp Evinrude engines. They are built by Marion Body mounted on a Seagrave JD-OOCD chassis. They can carry five in the cab and four in the 17-foot, all-aluminum rescue body.
The trucks have trailer hitches on both the front and rear, allowing the crew to launch their boat either by backing the apparatus down a ramp or pushing the boat into the ocean from the front.
Features include a 6-bottle SCBA rack and a surfboard, which is mounted below the interior ceiling of the body. Surfboards give the rescuers a rapid response capability for close shore rescue missions.
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