The Original Preconnect Prop (OPP, patent pending) allows you to keep your apparatus in service and ready for a response and make training accessible at any location at any time.

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This guide walks through deciding where to place pump controls in a practical way, helping departments think through the tradeoffs rather than pushing any one “best” solution.

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Whether building a complete WUI package or evaluating existing equipment, here are the fundamental components of a practical wildland water delivery system.

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Building rescue trucks has been a natural expansion for Fouts Fire, which has developed a model for manufacturing fire apparatus that is standardized, scalable, and configurable.

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More apparatus, higher utilization, more varied terrain, and crews who, in many cases, are less mechanically experienced than the people who ran the previous generation of equipment. The pump matters more in that environment than it did when it was a secondary resource sitting in a bay most of the year.

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