APPARATUS DELIVERIES
Photo by Ray Masser
Six weeks after the Hatfield (Pa.) Volunteer Fire Company put its new Spartan/Ranger utility truck into service, the truck was sent to all the types of calls for which it was designed: auto extrication, cascade assist, major fire, and haz-mat incident.
The 10-man truck, delivered in February, is powered by an L10 300-horsepower Cummins diesel engine and has an MT-647 Allison automatic transmission. The truck carries an eight-bottle, 4500 psi high-pressure cascade system, along with a 5,000 psi Poseiden air compressor; Hurst “Jaws of Life” rescue system; 110& 220-volt combination extension cords; and haz-mat suits and absorbants. Its communications features enable it to be used as a command center: There’s a cellular telephone, landline telephone capabilities, and three two-way radios, as well as a laptop computer with printer.
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The Tallahassee, Florida Fire Department recently signed a 20year agreement with Leon County to provide fire protection for the rural, unincorporated areas of the county. Five additional stations were built, and the department ordered 10 new apparatus, five of them pumper/tankers.
These 2,500-gallon pumper/tankers were built by Gator Emergency Vehicles, Inc. on MC Mack chassis. Each has a 1,000-gpm Darley midship pump, aluminum roll-up doors, tilt cab, stationay canopy, 6” jet dumps, a portable tank, and carries 1,000 feet of 2 1/2-inch hose. They were delivered beginning in November 1988, with the new stations opening in January.
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Photo by Tom W. Shond
The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York’s new quint, with its 1,500-gpm pump, has increased the pumping capacity for fireflow for the entire campus. The Emergency One unit was designed to meet West Point’s needs in other ways, as well. The horizontal spread of the outriggers does not exceed the distance of a hilly opened cah door, which is important because of some narrow streets there. Some buildings, although only five or six stories, actually reach eight or nine stories in height because of the topography, thus the need for the 110-foot aluminum aerial ladder.
Built on a Hurricane chassis, the unit has a Detroit 6V92TA, 350horsepower diesel engine with an Allison HT740 automatic transmission. There is three-inch piping to a deck gun and four-inch to the ladderpipe at the tip of the four-section aerial ladder. The unit is also equipped with two 1¾-inch attack lines in crosslays above the pump panel and carries 1,000 feet of four-inch hose. Twin Grover air horns are mounted in the bumper, removing the noise from over firefighters’ heads.
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Photo by Bill Hottersley
The 30-square miles covered by King County, Washington Fire District 36 has grown in terms of buildings over the past ten years. These occupancies determined the need for a quint, coupled with the chiefs belief that the quint adequately fills the district’s needs using one piece of equipment rather than two. Even with the growth in the department-from 3 paid firefighters and 30 volunteers to 30 paid and 70 partially paid firefighters-there’s still a shortage of manpower.
The quint, built by Pierce on a four-door Lance chassis, has a Waterous single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump and carries 300 gallons of water. The 75-foot aerial has a three-inch pipe telescoping to an Akron Gemini appliance with a 1,000-gpm tip that has both remote and tip control.
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