The Monkey Island (OK) Fire Protection District had a problem it needed to solve. It had outgrown its small rescue truck, which was carrying too much equipment and not meeting the department’s rescue needs.
The fire district’s response area is small-6.5 square miles-but its population fluctuates wildly depending on the time of year, growing from 2,000 in the winter to around 30,000 during a typical July 4 weekend.
Chief Carl Tesreau says the response area is mostly a resort retirement community with citizens’ average age of 62 years old. “We have a wide variety of coverage, from household trailers to million-dollar homes,” he says. “Our district includes an 11-story high-rise building; a four-story, 120-room hotel; and a convention center being built that abuts a 36-hole Professional Golf Association (PGA) golf course. So we have a lot of tourist traffic during the season.”
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1 The Monkey Island (OK) Fire Protection District bought this 2008 KME custom rescue-pumper with a Hale 1,500-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump, 750-gallon water tank, and Hale FoamLogix 5.0 foam system from Jon’s Mid America. (Photo courtesy of Monkey Island Fire Protection District.) |
Tesreau says the fire district was running a Ford F-550 rescue truck but had outgrown the rig because it had been loaded down with too much equipment. “We wanted a rescue-pumper in its place,” he observes. “We had bought a used truck from Jon’s Mid America in the past (a quint), so we knew them to be reliable and to have quality apparatus on hand.”
Jim Keltner, president of Jon’s Mid America, concurs that Monkey Island Fire Protection District was a prior customer, having purchased a 1990 LTI 75-foot aerial ladder quint six years earlier with a 1,750-gallons per minute (gpm) pump and a 400-gallon water tank.
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2 This 1990 LTI 75-foot aerial ladder quint with a 1,750-gpm pump and 400-gallon water tank was previously purchased by Monkey Island Fire Protection District from Jon’s Mid America. (Photo courtesy of Monkey Island Fire Protection District.) |
“They came to us because they wanted a used vehicle that had been gone through from head to toe,” Keltner says. “They wanted a vehicle that was finished and ready for them. The Monkey Island firefighters spent time with us, telling us what they wanted in the new pumper, and we found them a vehicle that fit their needs perfectly after we did some cosmetic and maintenance things to the rig.”
Keltner adds that Monkey Island Fire Protection District “had a pretty great need for additional compartmentation on a rescue-typevehicle, which led us to show them several rescue-pumpers.” The district representatives chose a 2008 KME custom rescue-pumper, he notes, based on its configuration and compartment space.
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Posted: Oct 7, 2016
The Monkey Island (OK) Fire Protection District had a problem it needed to solve. It had outgrown its small rescue truck, which was carrying too much equipment and not meeting the department’s rescue needs.
The fire district’s response area is small-6.5 square miles-but its population fluctuates wildly depending on the time of year, growing from 2,000 in the winter to around 30,000 during a typical July 4 weekend.
Chief Carl Tesreau says the response area is mostly a resort retirement community with citizens’ average age of 62 years old. “We have a wide variety of coverage, from household trailers to million-dollar homes,” he says. “Our district includes an 11-story high-rise building; a four-story, 120-room hotel; and a convention center being built that abuts a 36-hole Professional Golf Association (PGA) golf course. So we have a lot of tourist traffic during the season.”
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1 The Monkey Island (OK) Fire Protection District bought this 2008 KME custom rescue-pumper with a Hale 1,500-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump, 750-gallon water tank, and Hale FoamLogix 5.0 foam system from Jon’s Mid America. (Photo courtesy of Monkey Island Fire Protection District.) |
Tesreau says the fire district was running a Ford F-550 rescue truck but had outgrown the rig because it had been loaded down with too much equipment. “We wanted a rescue-pumper in its place,” he observes. “We had bought a used truck from Jon’s Mid America in the past (a quint), so we knew them to be reliable and to have quality apparatus on hand.”
Jim Keltner, president of Jon’s Mid America, concurs that Monkey Island Fire Protection District was a prior customer, having purchased a 1990 LTI 75-foot aerial ladder quint six years earlier with a 1,750-gallons per minute (gpm) pump and a 400-gallon water tank.
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2 This 1990 LTI 75-foot aerial ladder quint with a 1,750-gpm pump and 400-gallon water tank was previously purchased by Monkey Island Fire Protection District from Jon’s Mid America. (Photo courtesy of Monkey Island Fire Protection District.) |
“They came to us because they wanted a used vehicle that had been gone through from head to toe,” Keltner says. “They wanted a vehicle that was finished and ready for them. The Monkey Island firefighters spent time with us, telling us what they wanted in the new pumper, and we found them a vehicle that fit their needs perfectly after we did some cosmetic and maintenance things to the rig.”
Keltner adds that Monkey Island Fire Protection District “had a pretty great need for additional compartmentation on a rescue-typevehicle, which led us to show them several rescue-pumpers.” The district representatives chose a 2008 KME custom rescue-pumper, he notes, based on its configuration and compartment space.
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Posted: Oct 7, 2016
The Monkey Island (OK) Fire Protection District had a problem it needed to solve. It had outgrown its small rescue truck, which was carrying too much equipment and not meeting the department’s rescue needs.
The fire district’s response area is small-6.5 square miles-but its population fluctuates wildly depending on the time of year, growing from 2,000 in the winter to around 30,000 during a typical July 4 weekend.
Chief Carl Tesreau says the response area is mostly a resort retirement community with citizens’ average age of 62 years old. “We have a wide variety of coverage, from household trailers to million-dollar homes,” he says. “Our district includes an 11-story high-rise building; a four-story, 120-room hotel; and a convention center being built that abuts a 36-hole Professional Golf Association (PGA) golf course. So we have a lot of tourist traffic during the season.”
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1 The Monkey Island (OK) Fire Protection District bought this 2008 KME custom rescue-pumper with a Hale 1,500-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump, 750-gallon water tank, and Hale FoamLogix 5.0 foam system from Jon’s Mid America. (Photo courtesy of Monkey Island Fire Protection District.) |
Tesreau says the fire district was running a Ford F-550 rescue truck but had outgrown the rig because it had been loaded down with too much equipment. “We wanted a rescue-pumper in its place,” he observes. “We had bought a used truck from Jon’s Mid America in the past (a quint), so we knew them to be reliable and to have quality apparatus on hand.”
Jim Keltner, president of Jon’s Mid America, concurs that Monkey Island Fire Protection District was a prior customer, having purchased a 1990 LTI 75-foot aerial ladder quint six years earlier with a 1,750-gallons per minute (gpm) pump and a 400-gallon water tank.
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2 This 1990 LTI 75-foot aerial ladder quint with a 1,750-gpm pump and 400-gallon water tank was previously purchased by Monkey Island Fire Protection District from Jon’s Mid America. (Photo courtesy of Monkey Island Fire Protection District.) |
“They came to us because they wanted a used vehicle that had been gone through from head to toe,” Keltner says. “They wanted a vehicle that was finished and ready for them. The Monkey Island firefighters spent time with us, telling us what they wanted in the new pumper, and we found them a vehicle that fit their needs perfectly after we did some cosmetic and maintenance things to the rig.”
Keltner adds that Monkey Island Fire Protection District “had a pretty great need for additional compartmentation on a rescue-typevehicle, which led us to show them several rescue-pumpers.” The district representatives chose a 2008 KME custom rescue-pumper, he notes, based on its configuration and compartment space.
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