APPARATUS DELIVERIES
■ The Warwick (NY) Fire District, located 50 miles northwest of New York City, protects an area of 75 square miles. Within this area are residential, commercial, and industrial structures.
Lieutenant Michael Batz explains that the pumper is designed for easy operation and cleanup: It has an aluminum cab and a stainless steel rescue-style body. The tilt-cab is a Spartan Gladiator with seating for 10 and four doors. The body has 15 compartments; both sides are high. It is built by »-Guys, Inc.
The unit has a Hale QSGM single-stage 1,500-gpm pump and a portable Hale 350-gpm pump It has a 1.000-gallon booster tank. Two booster reels with I 50 feet of I ‘/.-inch hard rubber booster hose are mounted midship. The driver’s side reel is prepiped to a foam eductor in a high side compartment Twenty gallons of foam arcstored in a slide tray in a lower compartment. A six-inch, air-operated intake is mounted at the front of the vehicle, and a 2 ½-inch intake is on each ot the sides
Discharges include two 2 .-inch on each side and the rear, plus a 11/2-inch attack line in the front bumper and two 1’/-inch preconnected attack lines in the rear. An Akron 1,250-gpm. removable deck gun has three-inch piping to the pump. The pumper carries 1.500 feet of three-inch hose.
A five-kw Onan gasoline-powered generator is carried, and scenelighting is provided primarily by two 1,000-watt telescoping quartz floodlights mounted at the rear of the apparatus body and two Night Fighter lights located midship. The vehicle has a 200-inch wheelbase and is equipped with On Spot hydraulic ice chains and a traction-lock rear end. The pumper has a Detroit 8V 92TA diesel engine and an Allison automatic transmission.
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■ Montebello. C alifornia, is 10 miles east of Los Angeles, has a population of about 60,000, and is H.2 square miles in area. The city is ~5 percent residential, 20 percent commercial, and five percent industrial It is bordered by two major freeways Hazards include a petroleum tank farm, productive oil and natural gas fields, and paint and chemical manufacturing facilities
Firefighter Joseph Giron explains that the department’s three Lmergency One Hurricane pumpers were designed with a top mount pump panel for the safety of the engineer and better visibility on the fireground. The four-door cab. which seats six, has airconditioning to enhance firefighter safety and comfort.
The pumpers are powered by a Detroit HV 92 diesel engine with Allison HT-741D automatic transmission, and the wheelbase is 191 inches. The pump is a Hale PQG two-stage, 1,500-gpm with highpressure booster. Twin reels are midship mounted. Three-inch piping feeds a deck gun with 1,000-gpm nozzle, mounted forward of the booster reels. The pumpers earn 500 gallons of water and 1,400 feet of 2’/2-inch hose.
A 500-watt telescoping quartz floodlight is mounted at the rear of the cab and also behind the pump instrument panel. A gasolineoperated, four-kw Yamaha generator is part of the inventory. The allaluminum apparatus body has 15 tool/equipment compartments.
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■ Aero Skagit, a community ambulance service in Concrete, Washington. operates this Type I. four-wheel-drive North Star Ambulance, manufactured by Braun Northwest, Inc. Designed to operate independently in the rough terrain of the North Cascade Mountains, the ambulance has a 161 -inch wheelbase and is mounted on a Ford Model F-350 chassis powered by an International 7.3L engine and four-speed Ford transmission.
A 1.600-watt Honeywell electric drive running off the alternator provides 110-volt AC quartz lighting. The module has a roofmounted stokes litter carrier, telescoping 500-watt floodlights at the rear, and exterior storage compartments.
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■ The South Metropolitan Fire District provides fire, rescue, paramedic ambulance service, and hazardous-incident response to two cities and 32 square miles of unincorporated area in the rapidly growing Kansas City. Missouri. South Metro belt —a total of 52 square miles.
Headquartered in Raymore, Missouri, the district covers an area composed primarily of upscale single and multifamily residences and a growing base of commercial and retail industry. The district also serves three large retirement communities that have many special fire and EMS (80 percent of response) needs.
Fire Chief Rob Brown, noting that most of the area’s construction has occurred during the past 10 years, says the fire problem itself is not as substantial as the threat: Many of the homes are very large, and more than 70 percent of them have wood-shake roofs.
The fire department replaced most of its vehicles at the same time, a rare practice in this day and age. Replacements covered two pumpers, two tankers, a combination rescue/haz-mat truck, a ladder truck, two paramedic ambulances, two paramedic quick-response vehicles, a command vehicle, and a brush forestry unit. All units are equipped as EMS first-response ALS or BLS vehicles and are used in conjunction with the paramedic units.
A pumper and rescue truck built by Central States Fire Apparatus and mounted on the Ford model CF-8000 tilt-cab chassis are featured in this report. Engine 1 has a fully enclosed cab and module to seat five firefighters, a 180-inch wheelbase, and 10 tool and equipment compartments. The body and cab are aluminum. The pumper is powered by a Ford 7.8E. 240-hp diesel engine and has an Allison MT653 automatic transmission.
The vehicle has a Darley I.DM single-stage 1,250-gpm pump and carries 750 gallons of water and 20 gallons of foam. The pump has six-inch side intakes and a four-inch tank-to-pump valve. A three-inch pipe feeds an Elkhart Stinger with 1,000-gpm nozzle, and 10 1 ⅛and 2’/2-inch attack lines are accessible on three sides of the vehicle.
Two lengths of six-inch hard suction hose with Storz couplings are stored in enclosed compartments. The vehicle carries 1.000 feet of four-inch hose. Other features include two double sets of Collins FX1 2 spot, flood lights and a broom-and-shovel compartment above the pump panel.
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The rescue is a multifunctional vehicle and carries equipment for trench, high-angle, and water rescue; haz-mat mitigation; extrication; and mass-casualty incidents. The body is aluminum with nine Roll-OMatic roll-up doors to protect the compartments.
A Winco 25-kw diesel, I’TO-driven generator is mounted and connected to two reels with 250 feet of electric cord each. A four-kw portable generator also is carried. Lighting consists of side bodymounted scene lights, two 1,500-watt telescoping floodlights, and five 500-watt portable floodlights.
A 4,500-psi, four-bottle air-cascade system can fill SC.BA cylinders and feed two 150-foot air lines on reels used to operate pneumatic equipment. The vehicle also has a front-mounted four-ton winch. It has a 152-inch wheelbase and cab seating for three.
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■ Fire Chief Mark Eheart of the Barboursville (VA) Fire Department explains that his department’s protection area is rural and has no public water system, so its pumper was designed to draft water from ponds or creeks.
The pumper also features pump-and-roll capability—for fighting brush fires—and four-wheel-drive, which enhances maneuverability in bad weather. The pumper, built by Marion Body Works, has an aluminum body and is mounted on a Navistar 4800 chassis with cab seating for three. It has a 188-inch wheelbase and is powered by an International DTA-466 diesel engine with an Allison MT-643 automatic transmission.
The main pump is a Hale, single-stage, 1,250 gpm; the pump and roll is achieved with a mounted Hale Model 20FD (200-gpm) pump piped to booster reels. The apparatus has a five-inch front intake and six 2’/2-inch discharges and carries 1,000 feet of three-inch hose. In addition to nine tool/equipment compartments, the vehicle features a front-mounted, six-ton winch and two sets of Federal Nightfighter lights, mounted midship above the pump panel.
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