The Marco Island (FL) Fire Rescue Department replaced a modified fishing type boat with limited firefighting and EMS capability with this better suited one built by METALCRAFT MARINE. Deputy Chief Chris Byrne says the department is in a remote location off southwest Florida with limited U.S. Coast Guard services because of response times. The boat is quartered in and staffed by an engine company.
Features/Equipment:
- Firestorm 30 model (overall length of 34 feet, three inches);
- 10-foot, two-inch beam and a draft of less than two feet;
- two STEYR Monoblock 306-hp inboard diesel engines (for smoother transport of patients);
- seating for six;
- will accommodate five patients on backboards;
- open recovery platform for medical treatment;
- MEDTRONIC Life Pak AED;
- FLIR thermal imaging camera; and
- HALE DSD single-stage, 1,500-gpm pump with two TFT Typhoon bow monitors.
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The Grant Township Fire Department (Mason County, Michigan) uses this SPENCER FIRE APPARATUS brush unit as a first-out for all brush fires. It also responds to motor vehicle accidents and search and rescue calls as it tows an enclosed trailer with a KUBOTA 1100 ATV with track setup, explains Chief Ronnie Melchert. The department covers 15,635 acres of the Nordhouse Dunes and Wilderness Area, 5½ miles of the Lake Michigan shoreline, and sand dunes.
Features/Equipment:
- FORD F-550 4 × 4 chassis with 141-inch wheelbase and two-seat cab;
- FORD 6.7L Power Stroke diesel engine with automatic transmission;
- Pump-and-roll capability;
- CET PFD 500-gpm pump with 20-hp HONDA engine;
- Custom low operator station;
- Two ¾-inch AKRON booster reels and rear 1½-inch and one-inch Forestry Line preconnects;
- TRIDENT FOAMITE 1.1 system;
- ELKHART Sidewinder bumper turret with DARLEY 15- to 35-gpm tort nozzle;
- APR poly body with integral 500-gallon water and 15-gallon foam tanks;
- WARN four-ton portable winch with front and rear receivers and
- Three WHELEN scene lights (two forward and one rear).
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The Bayonne (NJ) Fire Department has in service this large capacity foam tender built by SPARTAN ERV. Chief Gregory Rogers says it provides a “triple threat” in combatting fires with foam, water, and dry chemical. The city has more than 600 storage tanks and transportation hazards by highway, rail, and sea.
Features/Equipment:
- FREIGHTLINER 114SD chassis with 297-inch wheelbase and three-seat cab;
- DETROIT DD13 500-hp diesel engine with ALLISON 4000 EVS automatic transmission;
- HALE 8FG single-stage, 3,000-gpm pump with a FOAM PRO ACCUMAX 3150 and EDWARDS rotary foam concentrate pump two 1¾-inch crosslays and one dead load of 1¾-inch hose for connecting to the dry chemical system;
- TFT Monsoon deck gun;
- UPF 200-gallon water and 4,000-gallon AFFF tanks;
- WILLIAMS Gorilla 500-pound Purple K system;
- rear three-inch foam concentrate gravity feed, 2½-inch direct foam concentrate refill and 2½-inch direct pump inlet;
- eight wheel well sleeves for spare SCBA cylinders; and
- one WHELEN scene light at center of the light bar, eight WHELEN fixed scene lights on the body, and a TECNIQ LED light at the top of the pump panel to illuminate the hosebed.
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