APPARATUS DELIVERIES
■ The Daytona Beach (FL) Fire Department operates this pumper built by Southern Coach and mounted on a Spartan Metro SFD chassis. The vehicle has a 171-inch wheelbase. According to Senior Mechanic Mel Moak, the department wanted an easily maneuverable vehicle with the quick response time needed in a very spread-out district. The pumper also serves as an advanced life support (ALS) unit and responds to medical calls in the district.
Moak says the department wanted a top-mount pump panel, to place the operator in a safe position with optimum visibility and the ability to operate the three-inch prepiped Akron Apollo monitor capable of delivering from 500 to 1,250 gpm.
The all-aluminum vehicle has 10 storage compartments, each 24 inches deep, featuring sweep-out floors.
The pumper is powered by a Cummins 6BT diesel engine with a World Model MD3060P automatic transmission. The four-door tilt cab has seating for four. The pump is an American Model ASC> 1,250gpm, single-stage with side intakes only. Two 1 ⅝-inch attack lines are in a transverse tray forward of the hosebed. The water tank carries 500 gallons.
Other equipment includes a gasoline-operated, 3.5-kw Honda generator; two sets of Federal Nightfighter lights; an Amkus rescue tool with rams and cutters; three air bags; and ALS medical equipment.
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■ The Port Crane (NY) Fire Company responded to the alcoholrelated motor vehicle accident in which Yankee baseball manager great Billy Martin lost his life. The fire company, with Martin’s widow, became involved in educating the public against drinking and driving. The tanker shown here, purchased after the incident, was named the “Yankee Tanker” and is used as a display piece for these programs.
According to Fire Chief John Eldred, the district covers approximately 70 square miles, including six miles each of railroad and interstate highway 88. The department has two stations, each of which has an engine and a tanker.
The vehicle has a 2,000-gallon, elliptical, stainless-steel tank, built by the Trailblazer Division of Walker Stainless Equipment Company, and is mounted on a Ford LS-9000 chassis. It has a 203-inch wheelbase. The tanker has a 450-gpm, Hale pump and carries 40 gallons of foam concentrate with a 95-gpm eductor and pickup tube for use on the highway. A four-inch intake with Storz connection and a 2 ½-inch intake with NST both are gated and located in the rear. A 10-inch Newton dump valve with electric control also is featured. Two 13/4-inch preconnects are located above the pump panel.
The tanker body has four compartments, two of which have double doors. A compartment that holds a 2,100-gallon folding tank is located on the vehicle’s right side.
The fire company hired a professional artist to airbrush a three-by 10-foot mural depicting firefighters applying foam to an alcoholrelated highway accident. Both this mural and the bronze memorial plaque mounted below it in memory of Billy Martin illustrate the message of these “firefighters against DW1.”
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■ Columbia, Missouri, is situated 125 miles from both Kansas City and St. Louis and occupies a 46-square-mile area with a population of 70,000. The fire department has in service this Sutphen midshipmounted aerial, which extends to 104 feet. It is the first of its kind built to a department’s specifications. This aerial ladder truck follows a Sutphen aerial tower delivered a few years ago. An older, 1975, vintage Sutphen tower, rebuilt in 1990, is in reserve status.
Chief William Markgraf gave two reasons for choosing an aerial ladder after having the platforms. The first is flexibility, in that each apparatus has its own particular advantages and limitations. He also believes pumps and tanks should be pan of today’s elevating-type apparatus. The second reason is the midship mount; he feels that platforms hanging over the front windshield hinder visibility. Hence, should a platform ever be mounted on this apparatus, it will not interfere with driver visibility.
The unit has a 240-inch wheelbase and seating for five. It carries 400 gallons of water and has a Hale QSMG 1,500-gpm, single-stage pump. It has a discharge for four-inch hose, of which 1,200 feet are carried, and a four-inch intake to feed an Akron, 1,000-gpm ladderpipe. Two 200-foot preconnects of 1½and 1 ¾-inch hose are mounted over the pump.
The truck’s body is made of galvanneal and has 15 storage compartments. The vehicle carries an Onan six-kw, diesel generator and features an extendable Federal Nightfighter light. Ground ladders are stored flat on the officer’s side of the vehicle, while the driver’s side has high compartments.
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■ In Maryland, the Washington County Hazardous Incident Response Team is operating this unit, built by Hackney and Sons. The vehicle has an International Model 4900 chassis. According to Russell G. Voelker, a team member, the truck is equipped for chemical-related emergencies. Hazmat 25, as it is known, has an operational command center featuring computer services and fax, as well as cellular and hardwire telephone capabilities, according to Voelker. Utilizing Maryland’s EIS program, computer services include CAMEO, CER1S (AAR), Firefighter’s Handbook on Hazardous Materials, Bradford, and the Selection of Chemical Protective Clothing Data Base.
Cellular service includes a dedicated line for fax and a conventional phone line. In addition, the operations center is equipped with a TV/VCR, AM/FM radio, and multichannel fire rescue and local government radios.
A 25-kw, PTO-powered generator supplies electricity for four 1,500-watt, quartz, telescoping floodlights; two 250-foot Hannay reels; and other electrical equipment. The telescoping floodlights are mounted two at the forward part of the body and one in the rear; one is portable. A ladder going up the back of the vehicle to an observation deck prevents a fourth floodlight from being mounted at the rear. Fixed scene lights also are mounted on the body.
There are eight equipment compartments on the exterior of the body, all with rollup doors. Three canopies are also featured (left side, right side, and rear of the body). (Photo by Russell G. Voelker.)
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■ In Colorado, the Aurora Fire Department operates 11 fire stations, providing fire protection and emergency medical services for a population of more than 250,000 within 130 square miles. It is located on the east side of the Denver metropolitan area.
The department has in service five pumpers and one aerial acquired through a lease purchase program. All were built by Emergency One, Inc., and are equipped with fully enclosed, fourdoor cabs, to enhance communication between officers, engineers, paramedics, and firefighters, according to Chief Engineer Greg Carlton. Carlton adds that these cabs are welcomed by his firefighters, who must brave cold Colorado winters. Seating is for four.
The pumpers, designed for paramedic engine stature, have seven tool and equipment compartments with rollup doors and are mounted on the rear-engined Hush chassis. They carry 500 gallons of water and mount a Hale, model QSMG, single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump. Besides the normal side intakes, one five-inch intake is located on the front and one 2½⅛⅛ is located at the rear. Two-thousand feet of three-inch hose is carried; the chief says these units will standardize the hose for all the city’s engines.
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The ladder truck is assigned to Station 8, whose responses include large industrial, commercial, high-rise, and warehouse districts, as well as a residential area. The unit is mounted on a Hurricane chassis and has a 225-inch wheelbase.
The 100-foot, aluminum aerial ladder requires an 11-foot outrigger spread. The ladder’s prepiped waterway is fed by a trisiamese into a four-inch pipe that tapers down to 2‘/i-inch, supplying an electric Akron, Gemini monitor with a 1,000-gpm nozzle.
For lighting purposes, the truck has one 500-watt and one 1,500watt floodlight on each side. A 7.5-kw, diesel-driven, Onan generator is also carried. (Photos by Marty Jepkes.)
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