By Alan M. Petrillo
The McAdoo (PA) Fire Company was in need of replacing a 1993 New Lexington tanker and a 2006 KME engine and decided to build a single new rig that could function as both engine and tanker. But then a light bulb went off overhead, and they chose to make the new vehicle a triple threat by adding battery-operated hydraulic tools to the mix to make the vehicle a pumper-tanker-rescue.
KME built this pumper-tanker-rescue for McAdoo (PA) Fire Company on a Panther LFD chassis and cab with a 16-inch raised roof and 3/16-inch aluminum body. (Photos courtesy of KME.)“McAdoo Fire Company merged with two other volunteer fire companies in 2016 into one entity,” says Bob Leshko, McAdoo’s chief. “We cover 130 square miles of rural and residential area with a large, seven-business industrial park, four warehouses in another industrial park, and another four warehouses, each of 1 million square feet, in the planning stages. The hydrants in our coverage area are on a gravity-fed system, so sometimes water is limited, which is why we wanted a big water tank on our new pumper-tanker-rescue.”
The vehicle McAdoo had KME build is on a Panther LFD chassis and cab with a 16-inch raised roof and a 3/16-inch-thick aluminum body, says Ryan Slane, KME’s Southeast region sales manager. “McAdoo is only 20 miles away from the KME factory in Pennsylvania, and the fire company said they needed a Swiss Army knife-type vehicle that could function as a pumper, tanker, and rescue. They wanted to do more with a single truck.” The vehicle is powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS transmission, he notes, and has a wheelbase of 226 inches, an overall length of 34 feet 7 inches, and an overall height of 9 feet 10 inches.
The McAdoo pumper-tanker-rescue is powered by a Cummins 450-horsepower L9 diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission, and carries a Hale 1,500-gallons per minute (gpm) DSD single stage
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Ground was recently broken on the San Marcos (TX) Fire Department’s Station 6, reports sanmarcosrecord.com.
Located in the Trace neighborhood in southeast San Marcos at 5716 S. Old Bastrop Highway, Station 6 is being built as a part of San Marcos’ 2017 bond, which passed with nearly 77% of the vote.
The project—which also includes the purchase of a new fire apparatus—is expected to cost $7 million. According to city officials, a developer will contribute $2.5 million to the project; the city’s capital costs will total $4.5 million. WestEast Design Group of San Antonio, Seidel Construction of New Braunfels, and Jacobs Engineering Group of Dallas have been selected for the project.
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The $534 million station being built on Barnett Street in Montego Bay, St. James, Jamaica, is on track for completion within the next two months, say officials, who add that upon completion the new digs will be the most modern in the Caribbean.
Despite construction delays due to the coronavirus, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development Hon. Desmond McKenzie says “the contractors have been able to keep the project within budget. So there is no overrun… and we will complete the project in a timely manner.”
The facility’s construction, which commenced in June 2019, is headed by JSIF under its Disaster Vulnerability Reduction Program. Once finished, the station will have dormitory facilities, adequate administrative facilities, and parking bays for trucks and other emergency vehicles.
“If we are asking the members of the Jamaica Fire Brigade (JFB) to put their lives on the line, at least what the Government can do is to provide the proper environment for them to work in,” McKenzie says, while noting that the Administration has spent close to $1.7 billion on new facilities for the JFB since 2016.
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