APPARATUS DELIVERIES
A new skid-mounted “drop-in” pump package, featuring a newdesign fiberglass tank, was recently custom-built by W.S. Darley & Co. for the Calloway County Fire Department in Murray, KY.
This drop-in unit can be easily adapted to any pick-up truck. The fiberglass tank features a shell that has been specially molded to fit around the wheel wells of a pick-up truck. This allows full utilization of the pick-up’s box space from side edge to side edge. Other advantages of this new design include better weight distribution, lower center of gravity, and greater tank capacity.
Another new aspect is the broader platform attached to the tank’s removable top. The larger platform accommodates all the modules of the drop-in assembly in a more compact arrangement.
The pump is a Darley-built Champion Model 2BE 20 ON, which is powered by a 20-hp Onan engine. A special impeller makes possible attack with 100 gpm at 150 psi, which can be used for a rapidresponse, initial-attack brush-fire truck. The truck has a 300-gallon tank capacity.
This pump package can provide greater speed and maneuverability, pump and roll, and the ability to carry a sufficient water supply to a remote area.
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An 88 1/2-foot fire/rescue boat, the Challenger, built by Moss Point Marine Inc., has been delivered to the Port of Long Beach, CA.
The Challenger can deliver more than 10,(XX) gallons of water and foam per minute. It replaces the port’s aging fire boats, which were built in the 1950s for use on the Erie Canal.
One feature of the Challenger’s five remote Swedish SKUM fire monitors or nozzles is one 4-inch-diameter monitor mounted atop a telescoping tower, which can extend 64 feet above the deck. It’s able to deliver up to 1,500 gpm of water and foam down onto shipboard fires or wharfside structures. The Challenger is also equipped with 11 fire hose hookups, permitting the boat to serve as a “pumper” to fight shoreside fires.
Unique to the Challenger are its two below-deck remote 2,000gpm monitors located in the ship’s bow. They are designed to fight below-wharf fires, because many of Long Beach’s older dock facilities have wooden construction.
The boat is powered by three Detroit Diesel 12V92TA engines.
The Challenger is also equipped for rescue duty with a swim platform and access at the stern with a hand-operated davit.
The new boat and its firefighting systems can be operated by a crew of two, but manning will be determined by the requirements of the City of Long Beach.
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Central Fire Station One of the Bellwood, 1L, Fire Department put this 102-foot Grumman Aerialcat into service in October 1986. It replaces a 1974, 102-foot American La France aerial truck.
The new apparatus has a 7,500-watt, three-cylinder diesel engine equipped with an Onan generator, so that the truck starts more quickly and runs more quietly.
The tower ladder can flow 1,500 gpm, 90° directly from the bucket. This helps put fires out more efficiently.
The truck also has a new-style low-profile cab, which measures 11 feet, 10 inches. This allows the apparatus to fit in a fire station that has a 12-foot door.
Under a mutual aid agreement, the Bellwood Fire Department helps to serve seven other towns. The new aerial truck has helped immeasurably in this effort.
The apparatus is powered by a 475-hp Detroit diesel engine and has Allison automatic transmission.
The department also has three pumpers and two ambulances.
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Photo by John Malecky
In October 1986, Ladder 2 of the Camden, NJ, Fire Department placed in service this 106-foot tractor-drawn aerial ladder truck built by Hahn Motors. It replaces a 1976 Maxim 100-foot aerial ladder.
The Camden Fire Department has about 10,000 runs per year, and the truck has already been used at several hundred incidents, according to Deputy Chief Frank Beal.
The apparatus seats a five-person crew and is equipped with a security gate to protect jumpseat riders.
The truck has a Detroit diesel engine with Allison automatic transmission.
In addition to this aerial unit, the department also operates four 1,000-gallon pumpers, five 1,500-gallon pumpers, one snorkel, and one 75-foot tower ladder.
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