APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Village of Evendale, Ohio, is a highly industrialized community covering 5.5 square miles with a working population of 30,000 and a residential population of about 3,200 and growing. The majority of homes arc large, high-value, single-family dwellings less than 10 years old. Industries include the large General Electric Jet Engine Plant, Cincinnati Electronics Corporation, Formica Corporation, Ashland Chemical Company, Van Waters and Rogers Chemical Division, White Castle Bakery, and numerous others.
Fire Chief James H. Bailey explains that Evendale’s Sutphen rescue/ pumper was designed to replace two older pumpers. One of the pumpers doubled as a heavy rescue truck, and the other doubled as a haz-mat truck. The department also operates a 1,750-gpm pumper; a 100-foot aerial tower with a 1,750-gpm pump; a life squad; and a utility truck.
The new rescue/pumper has an aluminum cab and body. The fourdoor custom-tilt cab has air-conditioning and seating for six. The apparatus has an on-board computer with Cameo programs. The unit has a 215-inch wheelbase and has 29 tool and equipment compartments. The equipment carried includes a six-kw Onan diesel generator, two 500-watt Kwik-Raze quartz floodlights behind the cab, four 500-watt scene lights on the body, two 1,500-watt KwikRaze quartz floodlights at the rear, and 500-watt portable floodlights. There is rack storage for 19 spare SCBA cylinders. Thirty five-gallon pails of foam also are carried.
The pump is a Hale QSMG single-stage, 1,750-gpm with a five-inch discharge on the right side and a 2 1/2-inch discharge off the front. All 2 1/2-inch discharges (which are featured on all four sides of the vehicle) have 1 1/2-inch reducers. A three-inch pipe feeds an Akron monitor with an Akronmatic 1000 nozzle. The pumper carries 500 gallons of water and 1,100 feet of five-inch hose.
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■ The lake Elmo (MN) Fire Department has replaced a 1969 pumper and a 1978 light rescue truck with this rescue/pumper, according to Fire Chief Richard Sachs. Lake Elmo is an urban community 28 miles square, located approximately 12 miles east of St. Paul. Its population is 6,500. The 27-meter fire department maintains seven pieces of equipment out of two stations.
The pumper is built by General Safety and features a full-responsetype crew cab—a common sight in Minnesota and Wisconsin, where the winters are extremely cold. It provides seating, refuge, and storage for the crews. The stainless steel body has 26-inch full-length compartments on both sides of the vehicle. It is mounted on an International Model No. 2674 chassis.
Other features and equipment carried include a four-kw generator, two 500-watt telescoping quartz floodlights, mounted electric cord reels, and a slide-out tray for an Amkus tool with accessories. Air bags, chain and cutoff saws, four mounted SCBAs, and a rack of 15 spare cylinders arc carried. The unit has a Waterous, two-stage, 1,250-gpm pump with a built-in foam system. The pump feeds three 1 3/4-inch preconnected lines, a front bumper trash line, and an Elkhart “Stinger” deck gun. The pumper is equipped with 1,000 feet of four-inch hose and 500 feet of 2 1/2-inch hose. It carries 500 gallons of water. (Photo by Red Novecki.)
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■ The city of Benicia, California, (population 26,000) is built into the sides of the Carquinez Straits of the Sacramento River. Workers from areas such as the Benicia Industrial Park, Humble Refinery, and the port of entry for foreign autos swell the daytime population to about 33,000. According to Operations Chief Gene Gantt, the fire department protects the city’s 13 1/2 square miles from two stations with paid, part-time, and volunteer firefighters.
Fire Chief Ken Hadley said he needed equipment that would protect his personnel and have sufficient horsepower and reliability to climb the steep terrain of the city, which is more than 500 feet above sea level. The availability of local servicing and workmanship also played an important part in apparatus selection. Two separate orders were placed for one pumper each from Smeal.
The pumper featured here is mounted on a Spartan Gladiator chassis and features seating for six. It is powered by a 450-hp, Detroit Series 60 diesel engine with an Allison HTB-741 automatic transmission equipped with an electric shift output shaft retarder. The vehicle has a 180-inch wheelbase and a body with eight tool compartments and a right-side, electric, top-mount ladder rack.
The pump is a Waterous, single-stage. 1,500-gpm with a five-inch rear intake in addition to the two side intakes. There are two midship-mounted crosslays, 150 feet each, of 1 3/4-inch line and a front bumper crosslay of 100 feet of 1 3/4-inch line. At the rear are two preconnects of 150 feet each of 1 3/4-inch line and one preconnect of 200 feet of 2 1/2-inch line. The hosebed carries 600 feet of 5 1/2-inch hose and 800 feet of 2 1/2-inch hose.
For heavy streams, a remote-control 1,500-gpm Akron deck gun is prepiped to the pump, and an unplumbed, demountable Akron gun is carried at the rear of the apparatus above the hosebed. Other features include a 500-gallon water tank; a preplumbed foam system by Flameco with two 20-gallon foam tanks; two midship-mounted, 500-watt quartz telescoping lights; and a 5.5-kw portable Yamaha diesel generator. (Photo by Ray VanEck.)
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■ The Green Valley (AZ) Fire District has this Emergency One Cyclone pumper in service. Green Valley is located 20 miles south of Tucson and is basically a retirement community with a population of 17,000, which swells during the winter months to about 23,000. District Chief Fred Roof tells us that the area has four major shopping malls and plazas with an excellent water system and a small mobile home community with a marginal water system. The rest of the 14squarc-mile community has a very reliable water system provided by three private companies.
The pumper was designed to handle major emergencies that may occur in commercial buildings. To help accomplish that, it carries 800 feet each of four-inch hose, three-inch supply hose, and 1 3/4-inch attack line. A Hale, QSMGT, 1,500-gpm pump is carried. It has a three-inch rear discharge and a prepiped three-inch Akron monitor. A four-inch discharge is featured on the right side of the vehicle with two 2 1/2-inch discharges on each side. In the extended front bumper is a 1 3/4-inch “Jump Line.” Because of the marginal water supply in the mobile home area, the water tank carries 1,000 gallons of water.
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■ Virginia Beach, Virginia, is an ocean resort and bedroom community with 27 miles of shoreline. It also has a Naval air station. The city is 320 square miles in area with a population of 410,000.
It is now operating seven units—four pumpers with 55-foot Fire Stix and one 75and two 110-foot aerial quints. These units are built on the Simon-Duplex-LTI chassis utilizing the Olympian cab with seating for six. The four pumpers were assigned to give elevated stream capability to areas that have no ladder trucks.
As with the rest of the apparatus in the order, these units have a transposed pump and motor. The midship-mounted motor is a Detroit 6V92TA diesel with an Allison HT-754 CR automatic transmission. The pumps are Godiva model PSDS single-stage, 1,500gpm mounted under the floor of the cab. The pumps have a single front six-inch intake plus a 2!/Hnch intake on each side of the vehicle. A rear five-inch intake feeds a remote-controlled Akronmatic 1000 nozzle on the end of the boom, which has four-inch piping. There are four 2 Vi-inch discharges on the pump (two left, one right, and one preconnect) and a midship crosstray for two 1 ¾-inch attack lines. The pumpers carry 500 gallons of water. The units have 202inch wheelbases; the body and Fire Stix are built by KME Fire Apparatus. The outrigger spread is 140 inches. The pumpers carry 1,000 feet of five-inch hose and have two 500-watt Kwik-Raze telescoping quartz floodlights mounted behind the elevated cab roof. (Photo by Daniel R. Ranges.)
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■ The three aerial quints built by Simon-Duplex-LTI have essentially the same body. As with the pumpers, the pump panels are laid out differently than usual due to electrically operated, hydraulically controlled pump valves, according to Captain Gary Weidner. Because of the design, the pump gauges arc on a panel perpendicular to the side of the truck facing the rear. The pumps are the same Godiva model, 1,500-gpm units as those on the four engines, with identical discharges and attack lines set up. They also carry 1,000 feet of fiveinch hose. The four-inch waterway up the aerial ladder terminates at an Elkhart 1,000-gpm nozzle. (Photo by Martin Grube; inset by Daniel R. Ranges.)
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■ The fire department serving the city of New Rochelle, New York, operates this rescue truck built by Pierce Manufacturing. New Rochelle, located in Westchester County, has a population of 70,000 and covers 10 square miles of mixed residential and commercial structures.
According to Deputy Chief Michael Charla, this unit is the first built on Pierce’s new Dash chassis, which features a prominent grill. It was purchased for use as a multipurpose vehicle with the main functions being rescue and vehicle extrication, air supply, floodlights, and a command post.
The vehicle has a 205-inch wheelbase. The tilt cab seats two; four more can be seated in the body. SCBA packs are recessed into the backs of the seats. The body is heated and air conditioned to provide a relief area for crews during extreme weather conditions, according to the chief.
Recessed neatly into the front of the body above the cab is a 20foot telescoping light mast with four 1,500-watt quartz lights. In addition, six 500-watt and six scene lights are mounted in the body. The truck mounts a 20-kw, PTO diesel generator and has an air cascade refilling system which, coupled with a booster pump, is capable of tilling 40 4.5 SCBA cylinders.
The command post in the body features a desk, multiband radio, and cellular phone with fax and computer capabilities. Other features include a 12-ton. front-mounted winch, a low-pressure air reel, and a reel with 200 feet of electric cable. (Photo by Peter Escobedo.)
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