APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania Fire Company, an all-volunteer unit located in Montgomery County, recently placed in service two rear-engine Hush pumpers built by Emergency One. Larry Kelly, chairman of the Truck Committee, explains that crew safety was of utmost importance when they planned the units to replace two 1981 pumpers. These new pumpers have four doors and seating for 11 crew members with seat belts. Five of the seats are equipped with air packs. The common crew area provides for excellent communications.
The units are two of the first with squared-off hosebed due to redesign of the original engine configuration. They also feature the new modular instrument panel, which is mounted in a leather-look Naugaform dashboard and is ergonomically engineered.
The units are equipped with a Hale QSMG 1,500-gpm, single-stage pump with a 6-inch front intake and five 3-inch discharges around the sides and rear. They have 3,000 feet of 3-inch hose plus transverse attack lines behind the cab. An offset booster reel is midship-mounted. There are nine equipment compartments in the body and a bank of Nitefighter lights on each side of the vehicle. (Photo by John M. Moletky.)
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Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, whose industries include textiles, machinery, and auto assembly and related plastics, covers a combined city and rural area of 122 square miles. The fire department operates five stations, three of which utilize the “mini-maxi” pumper concept supported by three quintuple combination aerial units.
Problems with a 1973 single-axled quint resulted in its replacement with a tandem-axled unit built by American Eagle. It features a Spartan Gladiator cab that seats six and a rear-mounted aerial ladder built by Ladder Towers, Inc.
The quint has a 228-inch wheelbase and a single-stage Hale 1,500USGPM pump with a top-mount control panel. Two transverse compartments are located below the panel with a third one behind it. The water tank holds 200 IGPM. A 4-inch rear intake feeds the 110-fbot aerial ladder equipped with a 1,000-USGPM Akron Gemini electric ladderpipe. The vehicle’s outrigger spread is 16 feet.
The quint has 16 tool and equipment compartments and carries 1,000 feet of 4-inch hose. The left side of the unit has a 4-inch discharge. Two 500-watt extendable floodlights are mounted midship, one on each side of the pump panel.
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Malden, Massachusetts Fire Chief William Rucci says that when it was time to buy a new ladder truck, the firefighters voted on what type. They wanted a tractor-drawn truck. This suited their station,’rf which is built almost on the sidewalk, with no apron and height restrictions. Not all available tillered aerials could suit these restrictions. Narrow side streets with vehicle parking on both sides in the*; district also made this type of apparatus most practical.
The new truck, from Seagrave Fire Apparatus, has a 4-door tracton * with split canopy windows. Lighting on the vehicle is enhanced b^ six 500-watt Telelites—four are mounted on the tractor and two on the forward side of the trailer.
The four-section, 100-foot steel aerial ladder is stabilized by hydraulic outriggers and is equipped with a permanent bed ladderpipe and a portable one. A 16-foot roof ladder is also carried on the^ inside of the top fly section. There are 277 feet of additional groun^t ladders carried, including four 35-foot extensions and a 45-foot # extension. The main ladder nest is enclosed in diamond plating with** a double door in the rear. (Photo by L. Murray Young.)
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Wilmington, North Carolina is a seaport town with 60,000 residents. It has a large historic district and heavy industry. Faced with having to replace a tillered aerial, the fire department considered the merits of a tower-type elevating platform. According to Captain E.J. Vosnock, other considerations included track and safety records of different manufacturers, roadability, overall height, wheelbase, and turning angle. They chose a 100-foot Sutphen Aerial Tower with a Hale QSMG, single-stage 1,750-gpm pump and 300-gallon tank. The unit has a 240-inch wheelbase.
The platform has an 800-lb. payload capacity and is fed through a 5-inch waterpipe, which branches off to feed two guns on the bucket, each equipped with an Akron 750-gpm nozzle. The outrigger spread for aerial operation is 16 feet.
The unit has 11 tool compartments and a hose bed storing 1,000 feet of 5-inch hose and 800 feet of 3-inch hose. Preconnects of 1 ¼inch hose are in a crosslay above the pump panel. Four 500-watt Kwik-Raze floodlights are featured, two on the cab roof and two on the platform. An Onan 5-kw diesel generator is fed from the main fuel tank.
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White Hall, Arkansas is situated between U.S. Highway 65 and State Highway 365 and has many narrow and dead-end streets with no sidewalks and closely built homes and buildings. It is an all-volunteer unit. According to Chief Ned I.. Tomboli, the department took several years to gather ideas and study local situations to determine their needs. Limited funds were available, so they opted for the most efficient pumper for their money —built by Wilson Fire Apparatus on a GMC Top Kick chassis with conventional cab.
For the narrow streets and congestion, the unit has a 108-inch cabto-axle measurement, which provides a short wheelbase to negotiate turns on the dead ends and narrow driveways. It also has a top-mount J)ump instrument panel for less congestion around the pump and a Removable prepiped Akron Apollo deck gun with 1,000-gpm nozzle for quick exposure protection.
The unit has a Hale, single-stage 1,000-gpm pump and carries 750 gallons of water. It has preconnected attack lines in the front and rear of the body and carries 1.400 feet of 3-inch supply line. There is a midship-mounted booster reel and nine tool compartments on the body, one of which contains a Dyna 4-kw gasoline generator. Two 500-watt Circle-D floodlights on telescoping pedestals are mounted midship.
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Normal. Illinois, located midway between Chicago and St Louis, Missouri, has a population of 41,000 and is the home of Illinois State University. The town is a mix of light and major industry, including the Diamond Star Auto Plant, which manufactures the Mitsubishi Eclipse and Plymouth Laser.
The fire department is replacing a 1980 1,250-gpm pumper with 55-foot Snorkel, which Fire Chief George Cermak says will be kept in reserve. The new tower, built by KME, is the Renegade model featuring a 4-door cab with seating for six. The 21 1-inch wheelbased apparatus is equipped with a 55-foot I.TI Fire Stix telescoping waterway, which flows 1,000 gpm fed by a 4-inch pipe. The tower and nozzle are controlled from the rear of the pumper and from the pump panel.
The unit has a Waterous CSYBX, single-stage 1,250-gpm pump, which has a 4-inch front intake and a 4-inch right side discharge. It has a 500-gallon water tank. There are two crosslays for 1 ¾-inch hose and one for 2’/i-inch hose. (Photo by Koy Cermok.)
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