APPARATUS DELIVERIES
The Woodstock, Georgia, Fire Department has in service a heavy rescue truck built by American Fire Apparatus. Woodstock has a population of 12,000 and is mostly residential with some light commercial areas.
The truck was designed to be a compromise between the need for several special vehicles and the budget limitation of one vehicle, according to Chief Robbie Westbrook. It serves as a manpower squad, a trench rescue vehicle, an air supply unit, a backup EMS unit, a haz-mat response vehicle, and a vehicle extrication rescue truck.
The vehicle is built on a GMC 7000 chassis and has a 168-inch wheelbase. The cab seats three, and four personnel can be carried in the rear of the rescue body. SCBA packs are recessed into the backs of the rear seats.
The rescue body has seven tool and equipment compartments, carries a 6-kw Onan gasoline generator and eight spare SCBA cylinders, and is air-conditioned. Exterior lighting consists of a scene light on each side of the box and two 500-watt Exend-a-lights mounted on tripods, which can be taken off the vehicle. A 4-ton Ramsey winch is mounted in the front bumper. (Photo by Jay Thomson.)
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The Buffalo, Illinois, Fire Protection District protects 48 square miles, most of which is farmland, plus a small village of 550 residents.
Deputy Chief George B. Lester says this Darley pumper was designed to address the need for farm protection, since water is supplied mostly by the responding apparatus. The pumper, built on a Ford C-8000 chassis, carries 1,250 gallons of water and responds with a 1,000-gallon tanker to all farm calls. To comply with NFPA standards, a canopy is behind the cab, which incorporates additional crew seating and protection for the pump operator.
The Darley model I.-DM single-stage, 1,250-gpm pump features a top-mount control panel. The unit has two 1 1/2-inch and two 2 1/2-inch preconnects plus an Akron heavy stream appliance with a 500-gpm nozzle. The vehicle has 13 tool and equipment compartments and mounts an Onan 6-kw generator. Other features of the pumper include a cellular phone, an Akron gravity foam eductor, and two 1,500-watt telescoping floodlights.
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The Port Edwards (WI) Fire Department protects a two-squaremile village with a population of about 2,000 and roughly 36 squaremiles of rural area. A 400-ton-per-day paper mill and a large chemical manufacturing plant are its major industries.
Chief Jim Anderson says that the department’s new Darley pumper is designed to be a first-in attack engine fed by a 4-inch supply line from a 1,000-gpm pumper in hydranted areas, or a 1,000-gallon tanker plus mutual aid in nonhydranted areas. When providing mutual aid, with a 1,000-gallon tank and a 10-inch Monroe dump valve, the unit can respond as a tanker with six personnel.
The pumper has a 176-inch wheelbase and is mounted on a Ford C8000 tilt cab with raised canopy, affording easy egress by crew members wearing SCBA. Two of the six seats are outfitted with SCBA, with the rest stored in high side compartments. There is a total of 11 compartments, including a full transverse compartment at the lower rear of the aluminum body.
It has a Darley EDM, single-stage, 1,000-gpm pump with top-mount control. It has a 3-inch pipe for a future monitor and supplies three attack lines (one 2 1/2-inch behind the pump panel and two 1 Vi-inch located under the cab canopy seat, one playing out from each side of the vehicle).
Other features include a 25-inch walk-thru behind the canopy, a rear 2 1/2-inch direct tank refill, and a 3-kw gasoline-driven Kohler generator mounted on a rollout tray. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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