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The Campbell County (WY) Fire Department, an agency that covers 4,800 square miles in northeastern Wyoming, has taken delivery of a front walk-in hazardous materials truck built by SVI Trucks.
J.R. Fox, Campbell County’s deputy chief, says the department is a combination fire department with 33 paid full-time firefighters and 50 volunteers running out of 10 stations. Fox notes the department also is one of several agencies providing hazardous materials and special operations response in a five-county area of Wyoming. “This new SVI hazmat truck replaces a 1994 Ametek walk-through hazmat truck and a state-issued tractor-trailer hazmat unit,” Fox points out. “We only have staffing for one hazmat team, so it didn’t make sense for us to have two hazmat vehicles. Also, a lot of the equipment on the two vehicles was redundant. The state didn’t have any plans to replace the tractor-trailer unit, which was showing its age, so we went to SVI Trucks to design a new hazmat unit to replace our walk-through and gave the tractor trailer hazmat unit back to the state.”
Jason Kline, SVI’s sales manager for Colorado and Wyoming, says Campbell County had several requirements in the new hazmat rig. “They wanted an interior space where their personnel could get dressed in their hazmat suits, a research/command area, and a large capacity for storage of equipment,” Kline says. “It was a challenge to put all those elements together on the truck and still keep the vehicle maneuverable, but we were able to do so on a single rear axle chassis.”
1 SVI Trucks built this front walk-in hazardous materials truck for the Campbell County (WY) Fire Department. (Photos courtesy of SVI Trucks.)
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Campbell County (WY) Fire Department
Strength: 33 paid full-time firefighters, 50 volunteer firefighters; 10 stations.
Service area: provides fire suppression and rescue services covering 4,800 square miles in northeastern Wyoming, including the city of Gillette and all of Campbell County. The department is one of eight departments that provide technician-level hazardous materials and special operations response in a five-county area.
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