Special Delivery | Alan M. Petrillo
The Earleigh Heights (MD) Volunteer Fire Company had a 2000 walk-around rescue truck that had a lot of miles on it and a lot of heavy use, which necessitated its replacement.
The department wanted to replace it with a vehicle that had more storage space as well as inside space to carry firefighters and use in cold weather rehab. The department chose SVI Trucks to build its new heavy technical rescue.
Dave Crawford, Earleigh Heights chief, says the department has three major state highways running through its coverage area—Routes 2, 10, and 100—which means firefighters respond to a lot of motor vehicle accidents and vehicle extrications.
“Our station covers not only our own district, but we are on box assignments for seven miles around in all directions,” Crawford observes. “We border on the Severn River, so we wanted a rescue with more space on it to hold all of our technical rescue equipment, and the firefighters wanted a walk-in body that was more conducive to cold weather rehab where they could get out of the elements.”
Jim Featherstone, the co-owner of Red Storm Fire and Rescue Apparatus, who sold the rescue to Earleigh Heights, says that while SVI has a strong relationship with Spartan and Sutphen, it will build a truck on any chassis the fire department wants. “Earleigh Heights wanted their heavy technical rescue built on a Seagrave chassis, which is what we did,” Featherstone says. “The build was a smooth process, even though it was Red Storm’s first experience in dealing with a Seagrave chassis.”
1 SVI Trucks built this walk-in heavy technical rescue for Earleigh Heights on a Seagrave Attacker chassis with a two-door stainless-steel cab and a 24-foot stainless-steel body. (Photos courtesy of SVI Trucks.)
2 The wheelbase on the unit is 203 inches, the overall length is 36 feet, and the overall height is 10 feet 8 inches.
3 It is powered by a 500-hp Cummins X12 diesel engine and an Allison 4000 EVS automatic transmission with a Telma engine retarder.
4 The L1 and R1 compartments are se
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Alexis—Dalton Township Fire Department, Muskegon, MI, rescue. Spartan FC-94 MFD with 10-inch raised roof cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; 18-foot walk-around rescue body; extended front bumper rescue tool compartment; Whelen warning light package; four top compartments; Spacesaver two-cylinder fill enclosure. Dealer: Josh Mausolf, Allied Fire Sales, Fruitport, MI.
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The Wadsworth Fire Department has replaced its 1992 ladder truck with one that features newer technologies and improvements, medina-gazette.com reported.
Funded by the passed 2021 fire levy in Wadsworth, the truck was purchased from a Sutphen dealer out of Columbus in the Dublin area and cost the department $1,495,000, the report said. It was used to tour various parts of Ohio as a demo truck for sale before making its way to its new Wadsworth home.
A fire official said that it typically takes two to three years to get a new ladder truck, whereas the new one was purchased straight away, and still given time for its proper inspections to take place and arriving in just under a year.
The new truck is faster and can hold a larger water capacity, and has a mid-mount based ladder as opposed to the previous one’s rear-mounted ladder, according to the report.
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Both the Lake George town and village boards approved purchasing a new fire truck at their respective meetings held Feb. 13, suncommunitynews.com reported.
Each board voted unanimously to spend $1.67 million on a new Rosenbauer Commander Cobra fire truck with a 104-foot aerial firefighting platform, the report said.
The resolutions to purchase the truck are subject to a permissive referendum which may be forced if a petition objecting to the purchase, signed by 10 percent of either of the municipalities’ residents in the last gubernatorial election, is submitted to a municipal clerk within 30 days of the resolution’s adoption, according to the report.
The fire truck is to be delivered in 2025.
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