APPARATUS DELIVERIES
- The Milwaukee (Wl) Fire Department is now operating eight rearengined “Hush’’ pumpers built by Emergency One. These units are firefighting paramedic service units and have a crew of five personnel, which consists of an officer, a heavy equipment operator, an EMT, and two firefighter/paramedics.
The rear engine affords more storage room in the cab, and the body features six compartments with roll-up doors. The compartment over the rear axle is recessed to carry such equipment as stretchers and standpipe hose.
The pumpers have 178-inch wheelbases and Hale 1,500-gpm single-stage pumps with direct piping to a heavy-stream device. Other features include a 500-gallon water tank; 1,000 feet of threeinch hose; and a 500-watt quartz Tele-Lite. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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- The Levittown Fire Company No. 2 in Pennsylvania operates this pumper-Squrt built through the combined efforts of Seagrave and Snorkel/Economy.
In the first-due area there are more than 7,000 single-family homes as well as two apartment complexes, 11 schools, 13 churches, and roughly 310 businesses in strip-style shopping centers—plus 30,000 people.
Fire Chief Frank Derr explains that with a volunteer force, there is sometimes a lack of sufficient manpower at certain hours of the day. This pumper/Squrt serves the need for a diversified tactical operation.
The unit has a 175-inch wheelbase and is mounted on a Model “J” chassis with a four-door cab that seats six. It has a Waterous Model CMU two-stage, 1,500-gpm pump with five-inch preconnected front intake and two three-inch rear discharges. A five-inch intake at the rear of the apparatus can be used as an inlet tor feeding the Squrt or discharging water for hoselines when the boom is not in use. The Squrt besom, with a maximum height of 54 feet, has four-inch feed piping and an Akron 1,000-gpm nozzle at the tip. A three-inch pipe from the pump feeds an Akron Apollo gun with a 1,000-gpm nozzle mounted midship on the right side of the vehicle. Four 1 ⅛-inch attack lines are mounted in crosslays.
The vehicle body has six tool compartments, and two banks of Federal Nightfighter lights are mounted behind the cab. An angled back-up light on each side of the body ahead of the rear axle illuminates the path alongside the vehicle, assisting the driver at night. (Photo by John M. Malecky.)
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- Erie Township is a small town 35 miles cast of Toledo, Ohio. Located along lake Erie, it is part of a summer vacation area with several marinas and condominiums. Also in the fire department’s jurisdiction are 1,000 acres of industry and warehousing plus a 600acre Army and National Guard reservation.
According to Chief George l.ibben, the department’s Sutphen pumper was designed with safety, ease of operation, and low maintenance in mind. Especially important was the fully enclosed cab with seating for five.
The pumper has an aluminum body and a 175-inch wheelbase. It has a Hale QSG single-stage, 1,000-gpm pump and a 1,000-gallon fiberglass water tank. It has a five-inch front suction and a 2 ‘/2-inch rear tank fill. There arc three 1 ¼-inch preconnected crosslays plus preconnected 1 ½and 2 ½-inch lines at the rear. A 1,000-gpm Elkhart Stinger monitor is mounted with three-inch piping
The body has 11 tool and equipment compartments, and a 2,200watt Vanner inverter powers two 500-watt Kwik Raze telescoping floodlights.
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