By Alan M. Petrillo
The Abiquiu (NM) Volunteer Fire Department has a fire district with a diverse geography, including a river running through it, soft sand areas of 200 to 600 feet in elevation, and a lot of territory that’s rural, broken mesa, high desert with elevations up to 8,000 feet. Abiquiu was running a KME pumper-tender (tanker) with a 2,000-gallons-per-minute (gpm) pump and 2,000-gallon water tank on a single rear axle, but the rig was 25 years old and had a tendency to get stuck in soft sand.
HME Ahrens-Fox built this Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) pumper for Abiquiu (NM) Volunteer Fire Department on a SFO-MFD chassis and cab, powered by a Cummins B6.7-liter 360-horsepower diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission. (Photos 1-3 courtesy of HME Ahrens-Fox.)David Klein, Abiquiu’s past chief, says, “We knew we needed to get a new engine so we started to look at wildland urban interface (WUI) engines, first those made by KME, then Rosenbauer, and finally HME Ahrens-Fox. We were able to try out an HME Ahrens-Fox WUI pumper in California and found the maneuverability to be amazing, especially with its great turning radius and the Super Singles wheels and tires that seem to float through sand. We received award money from our state legislature and also a loan from the state finance authority, so we were able to purchase an HME Ahrens-Fox WUI engine.”
The rig that Abiquiu purchased, says Jeff Wood, owner of Firefighter Trucks Inc., who sold the WUI pumper to Abiquiu, is built on an HME Ahrens-Fox SFO-MFD chassis and cab, powered by a Cummins B6.7-liter 360-horsepower (hp) diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission. Wood says the pumper has a Hale RSD 1,500-gpm pump, a Darley 150-gpm 1-1/2AGE auxiliary pump for pump and roll, a UPF Poly 700-gallon water tank, a 30-gallon foam cell, an Ahrens-Fox Compressed Air Foam System (CAFS) with a Vannair compressor, and an Ahrens-Fox Distributed Water Flow system.
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