APPARATUS DELIVERIES
Picatinny Arsenal, located 35 miles west of New York City in Dover, New Jersey, is the home of the U.S. Army Armament, Research and Development and Engineering Center, and has 4,500 civilian employees and 150 military personnel. The reservation covers 10 square miles with more than 1,000 buildings, including some in isolated, heavily wooded areas. The two apparatus featured here were born out of risk-assessment results.
The first apparatus is Engine 16, a pumper built by Emergency One on a Protector chassis. It has a 160-inch wheelbase and seating for six. Firefighter Mark McKeon explains that the shorter wheelbase meets space limitations in the fire station and affords more maneuverability; the four-door cab provides increased safety for the crew; and the 1,250-gpm, single-stage 1 lale pump meets fire flow requirements.
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The second vehicle, according to McKeon, was designed around the equipment to be carried and also tcxik into consideration personnel, budget constraints, and mutual-aid responses. Known as Unit 13, it serves as an incident-command post and a haz-mat response unit and carries the department’s vehicle extrication equipment.
The vehicle is built by Lynch Display Vehicles (LDV) on a Grumman chassis. It was sold by Sauisbury, which installed some shelves and slide trays. There are six exterior and four interior compartments. On board is a Zenith computer system, Braley cell phone and fix system, and a Climat runics weather station. Monitoring devices, a full range of haz-mat suits, and decon gear also anincluded. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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The pumper/ranker shown here is one of six units built by Luverne Em* Apparatus Company for die McMinn County Fire Department in Tennessee. The county is primarily a rural community with some industry. It is served by 1 1 fire districts. The units, according to department spokesman Russ Duggan, operate as engines and as tankers to support the districts.
The vehicles are mounted on International chassis. Each has a 1,250gpm single-stage American MSG pump and a 1,000-gallon water tank. A 10-inch Newton dump valve is mounted in the rear. On the right side of the vehicle is a 2,000-gallon folding dump tank; the left side has high side compartments. Sleeves for spare SCBA cylinders are found in the wheel wells. Crosslays have two 1 Vi-inch attack and one 1 ‘A-inch attack lines. (Photo by Jay Thomson.)
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H In North Carolina, the Rutherfordton Fire Department protects a population of 3,600 within a 31-square-mile town and rural district fixated in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The historic, primarily residential community also has a hospital, professional offices, schools, shops, and a variety of manufacturing plants.
Fire Chief James L. Hall says this Sutphen pumper was designed to allow the department’s five paid and 20 volunteer firefighters to quickly and efficiently supply a large volume of water and a full selection of ground ladders with minimal personnel.
According to the chief, compartment space had been a psroblem in the past. Thus, this apparatus was specified with a fully compartmented body featuring pullout drawers in two of the lower compartments and adjustable shelves in high side compartments. A hydraulic rack stores the ladders.
The unit features a two-piece Sutphen tilt cab with seating for six. The single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump is a Hale. A 1,000-gpm Akron Apollo appliance is fed by a three-inch pipe from the pump and has a base with a five-inch Storz connection. The pump has a five-inch discharge and feeds three speed lays (two 1 Vt-inch, one 2’/i-inch) from shelves underneath the top-mount instrument panel. The pumper carries 1,000 gallons of water.
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