By Alan M. Petrillo

Bayway Refinery, located on New York Harbor in Linden, New Jersey, processes mainly light, low-sulfur crude oil, supplied to the refinery by tanker from Canada and West Africa, and from United States sources by rail and marine transport. The refinery’s infrastructure and employees are protected by 150 paid and volunteer firefighters operating out of Bayway Refinery Fire Department’s single station. The department’s first line pumper was 13 years old, and was starting to show its age, so the refinery replaced it with an Inferno Super Pumper built by Ferrara Fire Apparatus.

“We looked at the department’s needs and determined that we would be able to supply a super pumper because of the various size mains we have throughout the refinery,” says Anthony Muccia II, Bayway’s chief. “But our fire water hydrant system is 100% salt water, which is kind of rare, and we knew it would affect the construction of the fire pump because the metallurgy would have to last in a salt-water environment, so we went with an all-stainless steel pump. As far as the chassis, frame rails, and aluminum body are concerned, they are all hot-dipped galvanized, including the compartments, so there is no steel or exposed aluminum.”

Brad Williamson, Ferrara’s industrial product manager, says Ferrara built Bayway’s Super Pumper on an Inferno XMFD cab and chassis with 3/16-inch marine grade extruded aluminum body, powered by a Cummins 600-horsepower (hp) X15 diesel engine, and an Allison 4000 EVS automatic transmission. “The Super Pumper has a US Fire Pump rear-mount/side-controlled HVP 6250 pump rated at 6,000-gallons per minute (gpm),” Williamson notes, “a 900-gallon foam tank, a FoamPro AccuMax 2 direct injection foam system with a single electronic control Fusion 300-gpm foam control head, a Task Force Tips (TFT) 8,000-gpm main monitor, and twin TFT Monsoon 2,000-gpm rear monitors, all three of which are wireless remote controlled.”

Williamson points out that the Bayway Super Pumper is designed around the concept of protecting close-proximity oil storage tanks while fighting a fire in another storage tank. “The rear of the Super Pumper has one 12-inch intake and four 8-inch intakes, two 6-inch discharges, two 3-inch discharges, and two 2-inch discharges for 1-3/4-inch hand lines,” Williamson says. “There also are two 6-inch discharges in the right-side pump panel.” He adds that the rear of the truck also has two TFT intake

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