APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Arlington County, Virginia Fire Department designed its new pumpers to answer medical calls as well as provide traditional fire protection. Each has a 4-door cab and a center-mounted engine, with a pump mounted forward of it independent of the transmission. This creates a walk-through jumpseat area that is capable of carrying a stretcher, according to Captain John A. Maruca.
The pumpers were built by Young Fire Equipment Corporation and feature a Duplex cab with seating for six. The rear doors are of the folding “bus door” fashion and can be opened from the driver’s position or from the rear cab section.
The engine is a Cummins L-10, 300-hp diesel with an Allison MT643 automatic transmission mounted on a chassis with a 67‘/2-inch wheelbase. Warning devices include all halogen “Hallo Beam” strobes and air horns mounted just above the extended front bumper. All audible warning devices are sound-insulated from the crew. The 1,250-gpm pump is equipped with hydraulically operated valves with manual bypasses. There is a 6-inch front intake and two 2 ½-inch intakes on the left side.
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The Portland, Oregon Bureau of Fire, Rescue and Emergency Services serves a population of about 528,000 in an area of 193 square miles with 81 fire apparatus in 33 stations and 861 total personnel. Portland recently placed in service two intracab pumpers built by Western States Fire Apparatus on a Spartan Monarch chassis with four-door cab seating six and a wheelbase of 178 inches.
The intracab design was chosen for its large compartment space (155 cubic feet), according to member Bill Powell. Because of the cab design, all exterior riding positions were eliminated. Additional equipment space behind the rear allows the hosebed to be extended, giving a final hosebed height of 64 inches from the ground. The intracab design for pump mounting spreads the controls, intakes, and discharges across the front of the cab.
The units are powered by Detroit 6V 92 diesel engines and Allison HT 740 automatic transmissions. Each has an American CSD, 1,500gpm single-stage pump and carries 750 gallons of water. The pumps have a front 6-inch intake and a rear 21/2-inch intake, with four 2 1/2-inch front discharges, two 1 3/4-inch rear preconnects, two 13/4-inch and one 21/2-inch crosslays, and a 3-inch prepiped Akron Apollo gun with 1,200-gpm nozzle.
The pumper body carries 1,200 feet of 3-inch hose and has seven large tool compartments.
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The Winnipeg, Manitoba Fire Department in Canada wanted an elevating platform that could be used to reach restricted areas, according to member A.J. Beveridge. So it chose the Bronto Skylift platform. The unit is built on a Kenworth L-700 chassis with tandem rear and a tilt cab with seating for four.
This Bronto, the 33-2T1 model, is 108 feet when folly extended and has two telescoping and one articulated boom with a working platform and a ladder attached to all sections. This allows the department to perform operations not possible with noncombinationed booms, according to Beveridge.
When bedded, the platform is located behind the cab nearly midship on the vehicle. The platform has an 880-pound payload capacity and is serviced by a two-cylinder MSA cascade with airline respirators. The platform has a 4-inch waterway feeding it from a 4inch intake equipped with a Storz coupling at the rear of the apparatus and has two 1,000-gpm Akronmatic nozzles plus a 1 1/2-inch and a 2 1/2-inch discharge.
The unit has a body built by Fort Garry Industries; six tool compartments; and a 3-kw, hydraulic-driven generator. It has a wheelbase of 20 feet, an overall truck length of approximately 40 feet, and a hydraulic outrigger spread of 19 feet 4 inches.
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Photo by Charles Marus
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