The Bristol Township (PA) Third District Fire Company has in service this SEAGRAVE mid-mount platform, which is the third generation of this type vehicle for them. Chief Ray Finnell says that the department’s local and surrounding areas have an influx of garden apartments with mid-rises, single-family homes, and office parks. The department’s past trucks have worked well in protecting these occupancies, so it has continued its standards with this truck.
Features/Equipment:
- Marauder II chassis with 246½-inch wheelbase and six-seat cab;
- CUMMINS ISL-9 500-hp diesel engine with ALLISON 4000 EVS automatic transmission;
- manual AKRON platform monitor;
- 206 feet of ground ladders;
- 75-foot Aerialscope II platform with 1,000-pound payload and 18-foot outrigger spread.
- six wheel well sleeves for spare SCBA cylinders;
- MEDTRONIC AED; and
- light and power with an ONAN 10-kw hydraulic generator, 10 FRC fixed and telescoping flood and scene lights, and one HANNAY electric cord reel.
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The Town of North Branford (CT) Fire Department used a committee to design this heavy rescue built by RESCUE 1 to be a self-contained technical rescue apparatus. Chief William Seward says that it is equipped to provide vehicle extrication, confined space rescue, rope operations, cold water rescue, and hazmat response.
Features/Equipment:
- SPARTAN Metro Star X MFD chassis with 195-inch wheelbase and 10-inch raised roof cab with and six seats;
- CUMMINS ISL-9 380-hp diesel engine with ALLISON 3000 EVS automatic transmission;
- 18-foot, nine-inch walk-around body with upper body compartments, ROM rollup compartment doors, and three top corners of the body with anchor points for rigging;
- upper walkway ground ladder storage and compartment for three hand fire extinguishers;
- custom storage rack for 16 spare SCBA cylinders and two hand fire extinguishers;
- RAMSEY 5,000-pound portable winch with four receivers;
- HURST rescue tools;
- MEDTRONIC AED; and
- light and power with an ONAN 25-kw pto generator, COMMAND LIGHT CL, five FRC floodlights on body (two each left, right, and rear), and one HANNAY electric cord reel.
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The Riverside County (CA) Fire Department designed two SMEAL pumpers with four-wheel drive to handle many unpaved/rutted roads in the department’s rural/desert areas of its districts. These Type 1 engines use Class A foam for wildland fires, rural mulch, and haystack fires, says Captain Don Ayers of Cal Fire. The department’s most common responses are to medical calls, structures, motor vehicle accidents, hazmats, and swift water rescues during the monsoon season.
Features/Equipment:
- SPARTAN Metro Star 4 × 4 chassis with 196-inch wheelbase and 10-inch raised roof cab with six seats and two medical cabinets. It has an 18° approach and a 24° departure angle;
- RV-style air conditioner to keep the cab cool for rehab and maintaining IVs and medications at workable temperatures (desert center temperatures average 110° and can exceed 120° during the summer);
- CUMMINS ISL 450-hp diesel engine with ALLISON 3000 EVS-P automatic transmission;
- Pump-and-roll capability with a WATEROUS CPK-2 300-gpm pto auxiliary pump;
- The main pump is a WATEROUS CSU single-stage, 2,000-gpm with an Advantus foam system, 1¾-inch front bumper line, two ¾-inch reels midship, two crosslays of 1¾-inch line, two left/rear preconnects in hose bed (one 1½-inch and one 1¾-inch), and an AKRON Apollo Hi Riser deck gun;
- AMKUS rescue tools;
- UPF 500-gallon water and 25-gallon Class A foam tanks;
- four wheel well sleeves for spare SCBA cylinders;
- SMEAL hydraulic ladder rack and hose bed doors;
- rescue Stokes with rope/rescue gear mounted at top of body with vinyl protective cover;
- ZOLL AED; and
- light and power with a two-kw HONDA portable generator, two GO LIGHTS on cab roof, two FRC extendable floodlights in front of midship reels, and four WHELEN scene lights (two each on sides of cab and at rear of body).
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