By Alan M. Petrillo
W.S. Darley & Company has built a WASP quick attack tactical pumper on a Ford F-550 4×4 chassis with Super Single wheels and tires for Ringwood Borough (NJ) Volunteer Fire Co. No. 1.
Troy Carothers, Darley’s contract administrator and CAFS manager, points out that the WASP features a Darley PSMC 1,500-gallon per minute (gpm) midship, split-shaft pump, with a Darley AutoCAFS 120-cubic feet per minute (cfm) compressed air foam system plumbed to four CAFS discharges. “We use the FoamPro 2001 foam system with the Advanced Feature Controller to inject the Phoschek WD881 Class A foam that’s environmentally friendly into the water pump stream on the discharge side of the pump so no foam ever gets into the main pump or the water tank,” Carothers says.
The Ringwood WASP has a Darley PSMC 1,500-gpm pump, a Darley AutoCAFS 120-cfm compressed air foam system, a 315-gallon water tank, and a 25-gallon foam tank.
The Ringwood WASP also has a 315-gallon water tank, a 25-gallon foam tank, and an Odin AutoFill automatic direct tank fill system, Carothers says. “Just hook up a 2-1/2-inch pressurized water line to the fitting on the back of the rig and flick the toggle switch to ‘auto’,” he notes. “The water tank will then stay at between 50% and 85%, automatically opening the electric valve to fill the tank. The body and tank are integral and made from the same copolymer plastic material so they will never corrode.”
Darley’s WASP for Ringwood has an Odin AutoFill automatic direct tank fill system that keeps the water tank automatically filled between 50 and 85% of capacity.
Ken Diaz, a past chief at Ringwood and chair of the truck committee, says his fi