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The North Stonington, CT, Fire Department recently placed in service this Saulsbury fast-attack pumper mounted on an 11,000pound Chevrolet chassis.
This unit is equipped with a Hale M series 750-gpm pump and 150-gallon water tank. The hose bed carries 500 feet of four-inch hose, and preconnected in the crosslays is 200 feet of 1’/2-inch hose and 200 feet of PA-inch hose.
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The Pennsauken, NJ, Fire Department recently announced the delivery of its new rig, a Snorkel type apparatus, manufactured by Grumman Emergency Products. The heavy-duty 56,000-GVWR Pemfab Truck chassis model/series Maxi LP-942G is on a wheelbase of 236 inches.
Special features include: triple frame rail construction with fish plate that provides for a section modulus of 31.57, an 18,000-pound front axle, a 38,000-pound tandem rear axle with no-spin feature on forward tandem axle, and a 445-hp diesel engine.
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The Boyd-Hdson-Delmar Fire District in Boyd, WI, has recently commissioned a new Darley “Challenger.” This triple-combination (pumper/tanker/hose) truck was custom-built on a Ford F800 chassis.
Its Darley Champion pump, rated at 1,000-gpm, is a three-stage midship. The booster tank has an extra-large capacity of 1,000 gallons. The hose bed also has an extra-large capacity for 1,500 feet of 2’/2-hose and 400 feet of 1’/2-inch hose.
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The Fire Department of LaFollette, TN, has placed in service two Gold Standard pumpers by FMC Corporation. The units are mounted on a Kenworth L-700 chassis with six-man tilt cab. They are powered by Cummins L10-300 diesel engines and Allison HT 640 automatic transmissions.
They each have a Bean single-stage 1,250-gpm pump and 750gallon booster tank. They have side intakes only (for the pump). In the hose bed is 1,250 feet of three-inch hose.
The pumpers carry a 3.5-kw Powerguard generator and two 500watt telescoping quartz floodlights.
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The Mercerville Fire Company in Hamilton Township, NJ, has placed in service an 85-foot elevating platform quint. The unit has an Emergency One body mounted on a Hahn 92 chassis with 228inch wheelbase. The Snorkel boom has a 900-pound payload capacity.
The quint is powered by a Detroit 8V92TA diesel engine with Allison HT-740-D automatic transmission. It has a Hale Model Q200 two-stage 2,000-gpm pump and a 200-gallon water tank. There is a four-inch prepiped waterway directly from the pump to the boom with a flow meter for the boom.
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Sutphen Corporation is in the process of delivering 14 new stainless steel pumpers and aerial platforms to the City of Detroit, MI. The new pumpers feature a 500-gallon fiberglass L-shaped booster tank utilizing a low hose bed.
The complete body and tank rest on 5-inch and 3-inch channel steel. The stainless steel utilized is a special alloy having approximately 1/8-inch thickness.
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Anoka, MN, is operating this all-aluminum bodied elevating platform quint mounted on a Pierce Arrow chassis. This unit has a Detroit 8V92-TA diesel engine with Allison HT-740 automatic transmission. It mounts a Waterous CMUYBX two-stage 1,500-gpm pump and a 110-foot all-steel aerial platform.
A 1,500-gpm nozzle is mounted on the platform fed by a fourinch water pipe. Two transverse trays mounted forward of the pump carry l1/2-inch hose.
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The Lineboro Volunteer Fire Department in Carroll County MD, recently took delivery of an Omega Custom Pumper with aluminum body from FMC Corporation.
The new Omega pumper incorporates a 1,250-gpm FMC Ram single-stage pump and a 750-gallon polyethylene water tank. Mounted on a Spartan Gladiator chassis, the new unit is powered by a 370-hp Detroit diesel 8V engine, driving through an Allison HT 740 four-speed manual transmission.
Other features include two 21/2-inch L.H. and R.H. rear discharges, and a 6,000-watt Onan diesel generator.
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