By Alan M. Petrillo
Cornelia (GA) Fire Department protects a city fire district in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains in Northeastern Georgia with a combination department of 19 paid full-time and volunteer firefighters from two fire stations. When the department found it needed two new pumpers, it checked out a Marion Body Works pumper built for the adjacent city of Clarksville, and liking what it saw, the department chose Marion to build it two identical engines.
The Cornelia pumpers each are powered by a 450-hp Cummins L9 diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission.
Calvin Kanowitz, marketing and dealer development manager for Marion, says the two idential Cornelia pumpers are built on a Spartan Gladiator chassis and LFD cabs with 10-inch raised roof and seating for four firefighters, three of them in SCBA (self contained breathing apparatus) seats. Kanowitz notes the pumpers are powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission, and carry a Waterous CSU 1,500-gallon per minute (gpm) single stage pump, an UPF Poly® III 750-gallon water tank, a 30-gallon foam tank, and a Waterous Aquis 3.0 foam proportioning system.
Cornelia’s pumpers each have a Waterous CSU 1,500-gpm pump, an UPF Poly III 750-gallon water tank, a 30-gallon foam tank, and a Waterous Aquis 3.0 foam system. (Photos 3-6 courtesy of Marion Body Works)
Kanowitz adds that the UPF L-style tank is much higher in the front up against the back of the cab, allowing Marion to give Cornelia the low hose bed on the engines that they requested. The pumpers also have a 1,250-gpm Task Force Tips Crossfire® deck gun with an 18-inch TFT Extend-A-Gun, ground ladders in a compartment above the water tank, and high rise packs and a TFT Blitzfire® hose line above the ladder compartment.
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Posted: Dec 24, 2022
The Bureau of Land Management recently transferred a water tender to the Wheeler County Fire and Rescue Rangeland Fire Protection Association and a wildland fire engine to the Alfalfa Fire District to enhance their wildland firefighting capabilities, ktvz.com reported.
The equipment was transferred under BLM’s Rural Fire Readiness (RFR) program, which is designed to provide equipment to local wildland firefighting partners at no cost.
The water tender will be stationed in Wheeler County and rotated seasonally between Fossil and Spray, the report said. It will be available for 14 trained firefighters to use for wildland fire response across their 500,000-acre district. The engine will be stationed in Alfalfa, and available for 18 trained firefighters to serve their district, which spans 68 square miles, according to the report.
Rangeland Fire Protection Associations are private, non-profit organizations established to help prevent and suppress fires on unprotected lands – those without federal or state jurisdiction. They represent a collaborative effort among local private landowners, the BLM, and the Oregon Department of Forestry and are essentially “neighbors helping neighbors.”
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