APPARATUS DELIVERIES
In Florida, the Altamonte Springs Fire Department in south Seminole County operates this rescue truck built by Rescuemaster. The town, eight miles north of Orlando and home to 44,000 residents, is a “full service community,” as described by EMS Manager Stan Human. It features a large hospital with a cancer center, schools, a regional shopping center, high-rise office complexes, and a variety of low-rise garden apartment complexes. Major roadway and railway networks, including 1-4 and Amtrak, span the city. The city also owns and operates a regional sewage and water treatment plant.
According to Human, the fire department first operates out of three Fire/EMS stations and participates in an automatic first/joint , response program with seven agencies throughout Seminole and ⅛ grange counties. Their rescue truck, he says, is a state and regional i disaster response source.
Rescue 12, as it is called, has an aluminum rescue body with 15 large storage compartments, a 15-kw Lima PTO-driven generator, and a Will-Burt telescoping light mast with four 1,000-watt floodlights. The truck’s versatility is multiplied by the haz-mat equipment, mass casualty supplies, a high-pressure SCBA refill station with 300foot air line, and portable regulator for high-rise refill operations that ; it carries.
The unit is mounted on a Freighdiner FL-70 chassis with a 234inch wheelbase, 120-inches cab to axle, and a four-door cab with seating for four. A six-ton Warn winch is featured at the front bumper. The truck is powered by a Cummins Model C8.3 250-hp diesel engine with an Allison MD-3060P automatic transmission.
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Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina, is the state’s “land grant” institution, populated by 17,000 students and covering in excess of 17,000 acres of research lands. The main campus covers 600 acres with 77 major buildings, ranging from stick-built residences to fire resistant high rises.
The campus Fire Department operates this pumper with aluminum cab and body, built by Sutphen.
• The department also provides contracted fire and rescue services to the City of Clemson. The total area protected is about 16 square . miles with a population of 28,000, which can exceed 100,000 on ⅝ campus during a football game, according to Captain Don Collins.
The pumper has a tilt cab with seating for seven. It has a 200-inch wheelbase and is powered by a Detroit, 6V 92TA diesel engine with 7 an Allison HT-740 automatic transmission. The unit has a Hale QSMG, single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump and carries a 100-gallon tank of Class B foam and 500 gallons of water. A gravity-feed eductor discharges the foam.
Three crosslays provide fire attack line: two 200-foot lengths of l%-inch and one 200-foot line of two-inch In additon, 150 feet each of 1 ‘/2-inch jump line and ¼-inch garden hose/utility line are carried. A remote-controlled Akron Apollo monitor, fed by a three-inch pipe from the pump and equipped with a 1,000-gpm nozzle, is featured.
Although not a rescue-pumper, this apparatus has “rescue style” (i.e., vertical) compartments. The vehicle features a total of 10 compartments, including two on the sides of the cab.
Other features include a center cab seat for a built-in command desk; 70 feet of ground ladders stored under the hosebed; 1,200 feet of five-inch and 300 feet of three-inch hose; a 3.5-kw Honda, gasoline-driven generator; and two 500-watt, extendable Churchvilie floodlights, mounted behind the cab.
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■ The Philadelphia (PA) Fire Department is operating this heavy rescue truck and a fleet of 20 pumpers in a city that occupies 128 square miles with a population of 1.6 million. The heavy-rescue truck represents the first sizable apparatus dedicated to such work.
The unit is built by Saulsbury on a Spartan Gladiator tilt-cab chassis with a 219-inch wheelbase. Cab seating is for six, featuring a wide, rear-facing jump seat for most of the crew. The truck is powered by a Detroit Series 60 diesel engine with Allison HT-740 automatic transmission.
The 23-foot rescue body is made of stainless steel and has 12 exterior storage compartments, including two for shoring and one for a Hurst tool system featuring a rollup door. There are 14 interior compartments.
A 25-foot Wilburt light mast with two 1,500-watt floodlights is located toward the rear of the body. Each comer of the body features a 1,500-watt floodlight. Power is supplied by a PTO-driven 20-kw Onan generator and a portable 6.2-kw generator. Two winches arcfeatured. The front one is of six-ton capacity, and the rear is a six-ton that converts to a one-ton “A” frame.
The I’FD has two air-supply units; no air cascade system is on board. However, two 6,000-psi cylinders supply a reel for confined space rescue.
According to Unit Commander Captain William Schweitzer, department members handle rope rescues and are trained as crisisintervention negotiators. The apparatus carries all equipment needed to handle technical emergencies in the city.
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PFD also received 20 pumpers, built by Seagrave Fire Apparatus, that are divided into two groups-eight have 1,000-gpm pumps and 12 have 1,500-gpm pumps. The pumps are Waterous, two-stage units with side intakes only. The 1,500-gpm pumpers were designed as I.DH units, carrying 1,000 feet of five-inch hose. Each battalion is ‘ assigned one of these pumpers, which have stainless steel bodies to resist rust. The bodies have seven storage compartments, including high ones on the driver’s side. Apparatus Officer Captain Jim Leary says the extra compartments are essential, since all companies are EMS/first responders.
Leary adds that the pumpers’ preconnected attack lines come off -the rear discharges, to encourage the engine companies to pull past the fire building, allowing better access for ladder trucks. This is ‘-important on narrow, row-house streets, of which the city has many.
The pumper featured here is Engine 3. It has a 175-inch wheelbase and is powered by a Detroit 6V92 diesel engine with an Allison HT740 automatic transmission. It has a five-inch right-side discharge and a 3‘/2-inch, prepiped Akron Apollo monitor capable of 1,000-gpm delivery. Engine 3, which covers major highways, has a portable foam eductor on the end of its monitor, creating an economical, preconTiected foam attack line.
All the pumpers earn500 gallons of water and feature the Model JB cab with seating for six. (Photos by John M. Malecky.)
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■ In California, the San Diego Rural Fire Protection District covers some 690 square miles of southeast San Diego County. The district is divided into regional response areas for specialized rescue needs. The average response distance for Rescue 18 (shown here) is more titan 20 miles. According to Operations Chief Tim Laff, the department chose a large chassis for a longer vehicle life span.
Rescue 18, built by SV1 Trucks, has a 12-foot aluminum body with nine storage compartments, two of which have slideout trays. The apparatus is mounted on an International 4900 chassis with a 152inch wheelbase and cab seating for two. It is powered by an International Model DT-466 diesel engine with Allison Model MT653 automatic transmission.
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■ For a number of years, the fire department of the City of Orange, New Jersey, operated an 85-foot articulated elevating platform as its only truck company. Asked why the department chose this 105-foot rearmounted aerial ladder, manufactured by Pierce, to replace it, Training Captain Anthony Antonucci says they wanted a longer reach and a vehicle that would be easier to maneuver on narrow streets.
Orange is about 2.2 square miles in area with a population of between 30,000 and 35,000 people. It has light industry and several housing projects, including 11 senior citizen buildings.
The truck is powered by a Detroit 8V92TA diesel engine with an Allison HT-740 automatic transmission. It is mounted on an Arrow chassis featuring a four-door cab to seat seven and a body with 14 storage compartments, including one that holds 159 feet of ground ladders. A diesel-driven, six-kw, Onan generator is midship-mounted on the upper part of the body. The apparatus wheelbase is 240 inches and the outrigger spread is 18 feet. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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