APPARATUS DELIVERIES
In Michigan, the City of Novi is located about 15 miles northwest of Detroit. It is a community of about 33,000 within a 32-squaremile area. It is bisected by 1-96 (east-west) and the C & O Railroad (north-south). Industrial parks, a regional shopping center, hotels, several lakes, a convention center, a petroleum storage facility, and two working oil wells are found within city limits. The area contains residential dwellings of many types, as well as large lot developments and agricultural areas, some of which have long setbacks from the road, limiting access.
Fire chief Arthur R. Lenaghan has a unique staffing program consisting of full-time, part-time, and paid-on-call members. Full-time members, assisted by the (Tart-timers, work 12-hour day shifts during the week. The rest of the week and weekends are protected by paid-on-call members, who are in a sleep-in program in the four fire stations.
The chief explains that each department apparatus has a dual ptupose; the Darley pumper (Truck 507) responds to medical emergencies as well as fires. He states that it was purchased to be used by the sleep-in crew and was designed for easy operation, since so many members use it.
The unit is mounted on a GMC Topkick chassis and is manned by two crew members. The aluminum vehicle is powered by a Caterpillar 6.6-liter diesel engine.
The pump is a Darley HM singlestage 500-gpm with a three-inch intake on both sides. Attack lines are one-inch on a midship reel and l’/iand two-inch coming off the rear. The water tank holds 500 gallons. Other features include a short wheelbase to make access via long driveways and two-lane roads possible; storage for 48 feet of ground ladders in the hose bed with a shelf above it for a backboard, [tike poles, and other long items; and high-side compartments on both sides of the apparatus for firefighting and first-responder equipment. (Photo by Brian Mitchell.)
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I The Bayville (NJ) Volunteer Fire Department’s jurisdiction is 18 square miles with a population of about 15,000. The area includes the heavily traveled U.S. Highway 9, a main road through many of the state’s shore towns. According to Fire Chief Fred Mitchell, this Pierce pumper is primarily for extrication; it is fully equipped with hydraulic rescue tools. The pumper also has a self-contained cascade system of four 6,000-psi cylinders for filling SCBAs and a separate air system built into the apparatus to supply two reels for air-operated tools and bags.
The Lance chassis has a cab that seats six, and the vehicle’s body features 12 storage compartments. Ladders and pike poles are mounted between the hosebed and 750-gallon water tank. Twelve hundred feet of three-inch and 500 feet of 2M-inch hose is carried along with 250 feet of one-inch booster line on a midship-mounted reel.
The unit has a 1,000-gpm, two-stage, Waterous pump with a fiveinch intake, a three-inch prepiped Stang monitor, and a gravity eductor in conjunction with a 50-gallon foam tank.
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H In Pennsylvania, the Union Fire Company No. 1 serves the boroughs of Hamburg and Lenhartsville and the townships of Windsor and Tilden, a total area of about 35 square miles. Mutual aid is roufinely provided to seven neighboring fire departments.
According to Fire Chief Timothy L. Wilhelm, the majority of the area served is rural. Hamburg is hydranted, but water supply is not very good. Busy highways 1-78 and Route 61 cross the coverage area, intersecting in Hamburg.
Willhelm explains that the 2,000-gpm KME pumper shown here is designed to supply water; it has enough suction hose to draft its rated capacity to fill tankers at any of several places along the Schuylkill River. The apparatus’ 1,250-gallon water tank is used to maintain a good water supply in rural areas and highways until mutual-aid tankers (the closest is four miles away) arrive.
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■ The Beilwood (1L) Fire Department protects about 3.5 square miles with a population of more than 20,000 residents. Fire department spokesman Ken Dumovich says this Darley pumper was specified with a fully enclosed cab to satisfy the NFPA standard but also to combine the functions of two separate vehicles. In years past, the ^ppartment used a separate vehicle for motor vehicle accidents and associated rescue duties. This pumper, designed as a rescue/engine, answers both fire and rescue calls.
The unit has a 200-inch wheelbase and is mounted on a Spartan Gladiator tilt-cab chassis with seating for six. The 1,500-gpm Darley Model LPM, single-stage pump has top-mount control. It features side intakes only and seven 21f-inch discharges, including two at the rear. The pumper’s three-inch pipe feeds an Akron Apollo monitor. Sixteen hundred feet of three-inch hose is carried in the hosebed. The engine carries 750 gallons of water and 30 gallons of foam.
The vehicle’s aluminum body has 10 storage compartments for carrying items such as hydraulic extrication tools and electric reels for extension cords and an air line.
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■ In Kentucky, the Versailles Fire Department protects an area of nine square miles. The city’s population is 8,500; its makeup includes residential, business, and industrial areas, including a Rand McNally printing/manufacturing plant with 35,000 acres under one roof.
This 75-foot aerial quint was purchased to handle the possible rescue and ladder operations at several area buildings higher than three stories, plus shopping centers, schools, and a four-story hospital, according to Fire Chief Frankie Shuck. In addition, the chief says, the unit supplements the other four pumpers as a first-in attack engine.
The quint, built by Emergency One on a mid-engine Flush chassis. has a wheelbase of 220 inches. Cab seating is for seven, and the body features 10 storage compartments.
The 1,250-gpm, single-stage Hale pump has six-inch intakes on the left side and the front and a 2‘A-inch intake on the left side. Four 272inch discharges (two on each side) are featured along with two l’Ainch attack lines in crosslays. The three-section aerial ladder is fed from a four-inch rear intake, which in turn feeds a three-inch waterway terminating at an Akron Gemini ladderpipe, with a 1,000-gpm nozzle.
The unit carries 500 gallons of water; 1,000 feet of five-inch hose; an 8.5-kw Deutz diesel generator; and 115 feet of ground ladders. The traveling height of the vehicle is 10 feet, seven inches.
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I The City of Mustang, Oklahoma, is a suburban community adjacent to and surrounded by Oklahoma City. It has a population of 10,500 and an area of 12 square miles housing many large churches and several shopping centers. The city also includes several large twostory complexes and two acreage-type housing developments, both of which are without water systems.
Fire Chief Tom Strother says this Sutphen pumper was pan of a bond issue that included a new fire station and a quint. According to the chief, the department needed a pumper with a tight turning radius, due to the many cul-de-sacs in the community, and a large water tank for quick attack in areas without water. A stainless-steel body was specified for longevity, and a top-mount pump control panel provides the operator with a better field of vision. The pumper has a 195-inch wheelbase.
The vehicle carries 1,000 gallons of water and 35 gallons of foam. The Hale QSMG single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump has side intakes and two preconnected 113-inch attack lines in crosslays under the pump instrument panel. A preconnected line of 213-inch hose is in the upper left side panel of the hosebed.
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H In Oregon, the Creswell Rural Fire District covers about 100 square miles of suburban and rural area and serves a population of 9,000. These volunteers operate out of two stations with seven pieces of equipment, including this unit built by Emergency One, mounted on an International 2674 chassis with four-door cab and seating for six. It is powered by a Cummins L-10 300-hp engine with an Allison HT-750 automatic transmission.
According to Assistant Chief Paul Furrer, the department wanted a multipurpose engine and Class A pump. They chose a front-mounted pump, favored in rural areas. The Hale 1,250-gpm single-stage pump has a fold-down operator’s platform. The unit has pump-and-roll ‘ pability. The three-section, 50-foot boom is midship-mounted and by a four-inch pipe. The boom has a 1,000-gpm nozzle. Jack spread is nine feet.
Furrer says the rear support for the boom was redesigned in an “H” shape rather than the traditional “V,” to keep the hosebed more open and less restrictive. Two 150-foot lengths of 113-inch preconnected attack line are stored in the open part of the “H.” One-hundred fifty feet of preconnected 213-inch attack line is carried at the rear.
The pumper’s aluminum body has eight storage compartments. The wheelbase is 222 inches.
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