The Yakima (WA) Fire Department has taken delivery of two new Rosenbauer pieces of apparatus: a 101-foot Cobra platform quint and a top-mount custom pumper.
Bob Stewart, Yakima Fire Department chief, says the department has an apparatus replacement program in place where engines serve as front-line apparatus for 12 years, then in reserve for five years, and then go into the surplus fleet. Aerials are destined for 20 years of front-line service, he notes, and then five years in reserve before going into surplus. “One of our trucks is staffed 24/7,” Stewart points out, “while the second truck is cross-staffed with an engine.”
1 The Yakima (WA) Fire Department had Rosenbauer build it a 101-foot Cobra platform quint and a top-mount custom pumper. (Photos courtesy of General Fire Apparatus.)
Platform Quint
Ken Gormley, sales engineer for General Fire Apparatus, who sold the platform quint and pumper to Yakima, says the department wanted room for personnel in the platform’s cab, so it went with an eight-inch raised roof and 70-inch-long cab with seating for five firefighters. “They also wanted an internal emergency medical service (EMS) cabinet in the cab behind the driver,” he says. Gormley notes that the platform quint is built on a Commander cab and chassis with a welded body. Wheelbase is 252 inches, overall length is 47 feet 6 inches, and overall height is 12 feet 8 inches.
2 Yakima’s platform quint is built on a Commander cab and chassis with an eight-inch raised roof and seating for five firefighters and is powered by a Cummins 500-hp ISX15 diesel engine and an Allison 4000 EVS automatic transmission.
The platform quint is powered by a Cummins 500-horsepower (hp) ISX15 diesel engine and an Allison 4000 EVS automatic transmission and carries a Darley EM 2,000-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump, front bumper and rear 1¾-inch discharges, and a 1,500-gpm Elkhart Cobra EXM wireless control monitor on the platform.
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