APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The city of Elyria, Ohio, protects a community of 19.5 square miles with a population of 65,000. During the 1990s the town will open five square miles of industrial land and also anticipates a boom in residential construction. The department replaced a 1971 vintage 85-foot elevating platform with this quint built by Pierce Manufacturing.
According to Chief Daniel Schue, the truck provides aerial ladder capability that the department did not have. The truck is equipped with a pump to be self-sufficient or act as a backup pumper if needed. It also has a four-door, fully enclosed cab to meet NFPA standards. Further, it carries extrication equipment.
The unit, built on an Arrow chassis, has seating for seven and a 240inch wheelbase. It has a Waterous CMUYBX, two-stage, 1,500-gpm pump and carries 200 gallons of water. Attack lines consist of two 200-foot, 1 3/4-inch lines.
The vehicle mounts a 105-foot aerial ladder and has a 16-foot outrigger spread. A four-inch waterway feeds an Akron Gemini appliance with a 1,000-gpm nozzle. It has 14 compartments in the body and mounts a six-kw Onan diesel generator. (Photo by David Igneczi.)
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■ The Honolulu City and County Fire Department in Hawaii recently placed in service this full-size fireboat, the MOKU AHI, a 110-footer built by Moss Point Marine, Inc., to replace a 1951 vintage Abner T. Longley. The new craft was custom-designed by Guido Perla & Associates, Inc., based on results of a study commissioned by Hawaii’s Department of Transportation.
The vessel is built to protect major hazard areas including tank farms, flammable cargo in the commercial port, nearby yacht and private vessel moorages, and offshore anchorage. It is capable of operating in the open ocean and backing up the first-alarm units at an oil-unloading facility at Barber’s Point.
The boat’s propulsion and pumping power is provided by two Detroit 16V92TA diesel engines with 110 hp at 2,100 rpm. which drive fixed-pitch propellers through twin-disc marine transmissions. It has a 22-foot beam; a depth of 12 feet, four inches; and a draft of
seven feet, four inches. Its displacement is 126 long tons and top speed is 20 knots.
For firefighting, each engine drives a Goulds 3,500-gpm pump through an air clutch. A total of 12,000 gpm can be delivered through the collective capacity of four Stang monitors, one of which is mounted on a tower that can rise 50 feet above the water. A total of 1,000 gallons of foam is stored in stainless steel tanks. A Viking 60gpm foam pump and three Svenska Skum foam proportioners can deliver up to 2,000 gpm of finished foam. Two 100-pound C02 cylinders are connected to a reel of 100 feet of hose. The boat carries 1,000 feet of four-inch hose and 900 feet of assorted smaller-size hose for attack lines.
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■ The Sullivan (IL) Fire & Ambulance operates this rescue truck built by Emergency One. The district has an area of about 100 square miles and a population of 7,500. Fire Chief Jeff Waite says that the department replaced a 1970 walk-in type rescue truck with the current one. It is used mostly for paramedic calls and highway rescue.
The truck is mounted on a Ford F-700 chassis and has an aluminum body. It has a Ford 7.8 liter, 210-hp, diesel engine and an Allison model MT-643 automatic transmission. The truck body has nine compartments, including one set aside for future equipment.
Four 500-watt telescoping quartz floodlights are mounted on each corner of the truck’s body. An air coupling, which works off the vehicle brake system, is located at the rear of the truck. Dry chemical and CO2 fire extinguishers are mounted in the extended front bumper.
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■ Yakima County, Washington, Fire District 11 covers 15 square miles of mostly residential area with light commercial and orchard land. Captain Ted Castle says his primarily volunteer department responds to about 380 calls per year (half are EMS), which are increasing particularly in hazardous-material response. The department needed to update its present unit and designed its new unit to handle command post responsibility.
The unit, built by Marion Body, has a 12-foot aluminum box mounted on a Ford F450 chassis. There is seating for two in the cab and three in the box. The truck has a 160-inch wheelbase.
There are seven tool and equipment compartments and storage for two SCBA units and six spare bottles. The truck is air-conditioned and has a front Opticon traffic controller mounted on the box above the cab roof.
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■ The Washburn (II.) Fire District consists of the towns of Washburn. LaRose, and Low Point plus a rural area, for a total population of 3,700 within an area of 120 square miles.
Fire Chief Dean Peabody says the department’s Pierce pumper was designed with a top-mount pump control to afford better visibility for the operator at a fire scene. The single-stage 1,000-gpm Waterous pump was specified so as not to overtax the hydrants but still provide a sufficient amount of water at rural fires.
The unit is mounted on a Ford LN8000 chassis. An automatic transmission was chosen due to ease of handling for “part-time” truck drivers. The vehicle carries 1,000 gallons of water and has provision for four preconnected lines (two rear, two side).
The pumper has a 206-inch wheelbase and 10 storage compartments. It carries a Homelite, gasoline-driven, 5.5-kw generator and mounts two 500-watt floodlights midship. Hard-suction hose is cradled above the left high side compartments. (Photo by Bob Harris).
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■ The two-square-mile town of Hasbrouck Heights, New Jersey, has a volunteer fire department that also covers Teterboro Airport. Also in the area are heavy industry, high-rise hotels, and the heavily traveled Route 17, U.S. 46, and 1-80. The population is 12,000.
Captain Arthur Knobloch explains that the department was replacing a 20-year-old ladder truck and wanted a heavy-duty ladder. With two pumpers in its fleet, the department wanted a pump on the ladder truck to compensate if one of the pumpers was down for repairs. In addition, the pump could control flow into the aerial.
The department now operates a Scagravc RA-110 featuring a 110foot aerial ladder with prepiped waterway; a Waterous CMIJ twostage, 1,500-gpm pump; a 200-gallon water tank; and 250 feet of fiveinch hose. The unit has a cab that seats seven.
The unit has a six-kw Onan diesel generator and a pair each of 1,000-watt quartz Tele-Lites and Federal Nightfighters. Air-conditioning is provided in the cab. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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■ Johnson County Fire-Rescue is responsible for protecting two county-operated general aviation airports and a major industrial park. Headquartered in the area of Gardner, Kansas, it is a career department. Chief Paul Adams states that the department placed its new pumper in service to meet the structural firefighting needs of the industrial park and to operate in a support mode with crash equipment.
The pumper is built by Emergency One and is mounted on an Ottawa chassis. It has an all-aluminum body with 10 tool and equipment compartments and an all-aluminum cab with seating for five. The vehicle wheelbase is 178 inches.
The unit has a Hale, single-stage, 1.250-gpm pump and carries 500 gallons of water in a polypropylene tank. In crosslays are two 200foot lengths of preconnected 1 3/4-inch hose and in the rear is one 200-foot length of 2 1/2-inch preconnect. Since the photo was taken. 100 feet of one-inch, preconnected forestry line was added on the right side.
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