APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Atlanta (GA) Fire Department provides both structural and airport fire protection. Featured here are apparatus for each type.
The first is a two-firefighter rescue unit. Fire Chief David M. Chamberlain, Sr., explains that the department has five first-line rescue units, four of which are as shown and built by 3-D Fire Apparatus, Inc. In 1979, the AFD took over rescue functions from the police department, which had small vans that needed repair. They were replaced in 1982 with conventional squad trucks—all aluminum on a heavy-duty pickup chassis. In 1985, two of the units were upgraded with heavier chassis (16,000 GVW), but problems with brakes, transmissions, engines, and compartment failures resulted in an additional upgrade in 1987 to a heavier GVW of all-steel construction with diesel power. These trucks run fire, rescue, and first responder calls along with engine companies; in the latter case, they stabilize patients for transport by ambulances. At working fires, they are used for search and rescue, triage, and rehab. Each truck averages more than 3,000 runs annually.
The vehicle shown has a Navistar chassis with a 135-inch wheelbase, though future plans are to extend the wheelbases on these units. The units have a front-mounted, four-ton winch and eight compartments in the rescue body. Electric power is provided by a 1,600-watt Redline. 12-volt system. Two 500-watt telescoping floodlights, as well as two spotlights, are mounted at the rear of the body. The trucks have a control valve and air outlet for operating air tools (Photo by Dan Decher.)
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Galion, Ohio, has a population of 13.000 and a fully paid firedepartment with a staff of 17. Chief Melvin Enders says the department carries 1,300 feet of five-inch supply hose on its tilt-cab Sutphen pumper because of inadequate water supply in some areas. Preconnected attack lines cut down on time requirements, an important consideration when personnel are limited, he says. The crosstrays hold two each of 1 Vi-inch and 2 Vi-inch preconnects.
The pumper has a 200-inch wheelbase and has seating for six. with an assigned crew of five. The Hale. QSG. single-stage. 1,250-gpm pump has a five-inch right side discharge, preconnected front intake, and three e feeding a demountable Akron 1,000-gpm deck gun.
The stainless steel apparatus body has nine tool/equipment compartments, which include high side models on both sides of the vehicle—made possible by the presence of a hydraulic ground ladder rack on the right side.
Other vehicle features include a booster reel compartment below crosstrays, extra air outlets to run tools, a 7.5-kw Onan diesel generator that allows extended running of electric lights and tools, banks of twin 500-watt floodlights on extendable poles, and a 500gallon water tank.
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In Hamilton Township, New Jersey, Captain David Sabo says Ladder 13 of the Rusling Hose Fire Company was purchased to replace an aging 85-foot aerial ladder and a 1.000-gpm pumper.
The company covers Fire District 3, which is about four square miles in area and has about 13.500 residents. The area is primarily residential, containing structures that arc 50 or more years old.
The truck, built by Simon/LTI, is mounted on a Spartan four-door. Gladiator tilt-cab chassis with seating for eight. The body has 14 tool/ equipment compartments, and the vehicle has a 246-inch wheelbase.
The unit has a Waterous two-stage, 1,500-gpm pump and carries 300 gallons of water. At the rear is a five-inch intake with Storz connection leading to a six-inch pipe. The 110-foot, four-section, steel aerial ladder has a four-inch waterway and an Akronmatic 1,000-gpm ladderpipe.
Two crosstrays have 200 feet of 1 3/4-inch attack line each, and supply hose consists of 300 feet of five-inch l.DH. Outriggers for aerial operation advance to 54 inches from each side of the vehicle. Ground ladder storage is in the torque box of the vehicle, which is accessible from the rear. A 12-kw. diesel-powered Onan generator is carried, and telescoping floodlights arc mounted on the back of the tilt cab and the forward part of the body. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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