By Alan M Petrillo
The Tolland (MA) Fire Department is an all-volunteer agency with 15 volunteer firefighters operating out of a single station covering nearly 33 square miles of a mostly rural fire district with only dry hydrants as water sources beyond the water they carry on their pumpers and tankers (tenders).
Tolland (MA) Fire Department had 4 Guys Fire Trucks build this custom top-mount rescue-pumper on a Spartan Metro Star chassis and cab with a 10-inch raised roof and seating for six firefighters. (Photos 1-5 courtesy of 4 Guys Fire Apparatus.)Jeff LaCasse, Tolland Fire’s deputy chief and chair of its apparatus committee, says Tolland wanted to replace a 1996 custom cab Spartan Laverne engine, which had been donated to the department, with a new rig that could function as a rescue-pumper and also carry a significant amount of water. LaCasse says the department went to Jon Cares, chief executive officer of Granite Fire Apparatus Inc., who sat down with the committee, learned its particular needs, and offered a rescue-pumper with a large water tank built by 4 Guys Fire Trucks.
Cares points out that the Tolland apparatus committee, “Wanted to carry more water than usual, wanted a bigger pump than typical, a top-mount, and a foam system on the vehicle. The resulting rig is on a Spartan Metro Star chassis and cab with a 10-inch raised roof and seating for six firefighters, five of those in H.O. Bostrom 500 SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) seats.” Cares adds that the rescue-pumper is powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 diesel engine and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission.
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Midwest Fire—Winter (WI) Volunteer Fire Department pumper-tanker. Freightliner M2 106 cab and chassis; Cummins L9 350-hp engine; Darley LSP 1,000-gpm, PTO pump; APR polypropylene 3,000-gallon water tank; three Newton stainless steel dump valves with chutes; fold-down portable tank carrier; All-Poly™ tank and body construction. Dealer: Joseph Juhl, Midwest Fire, Luverne, MN.
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