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E-ONE - Buffalo Grove (IL) Fire Department 78-foot aerial ladder quint. Cyclone II cab and chassis; Cummins ISX12 500-hp engine; Hale Qmax 2,000-gpm pump; UPF Poly 400-gallon tank; Smart Power 10-kW generator; two hydraulic cord reels with Holmatro CORE™ Technology hose. Dealer: Greg Hansen, Fire Service Inc., Naperville, IL.

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Delivery of the Month

E-ONE - Buffalo Grove (IL) Fire Department 78-foot aerial ladder quint. Cyclone II cab and chassis; Cummins ISX12 500-hp engine; Hale Qmax 2,000-gpm pump; UPF Poly 400-gallon tank; Smart Power 10-kW generator; two hydraulic cord reels with Holmatro CORE™ Technology hose. Dealer: Greg Hansen, Fire Service Inc., Naperville, IL.

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Alan M. Petrillo

When the Mount Vernon (ME) Fire Department needed a new pumper to replace a 1986 pumper-tanker, it turned to W.S. Darley & Co. for another rig with a compressed-air foam system (CAFS), just like the department’s two previous Darley pumpers.

1 W.S. Darley & Co. built this CAFS pumper for the Mount Vernon (ME) Fire Department on a Freightliner M2 106 two-door chassis and cab with a PolyBilt copolymer body. (Photo courtesy of W.S. Darley & Co.)

“This is our third Darley pumper and our fourth Darley-built truck,” says Joe Lemieux, Mount Vernon’s captain. “We’ve been running CAFS for 18 years, and all of our pumpers have it, so we wanted our new pumper to have CAFS as well. Using CAFS on structure fires gives us the ability to get a quick knockdown so we can get to the source of the fire, and we also use less water and cause less water damage to the home.”

Lemieux points out that because of fire station physical restrictions, the department’s new pumper had to be built within certain parameters for its height, length, and wheelbase. The resulting 2016 Darley CAFS pumper came in at 30 feet 8 inches long overall, 9 feet 6 inches high overall, and has a 227-inch wheelbase. The rig is built on a Freightliner M2 106 two-door chassis with a PolyBilt copolymer body on a 16,000-pound front axle and a 24,020-pound rear axle. It’s powered by a Cummins ISL9 diesel engine and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission.

2 The Mount Vernon Darley pumper has a Darley/Champion LDMBC 1,250- gpm single-stage pump, a 1,000-gallon PolyBilt copolymer water tank with a 25-gallon integral foam tank, a Darley AutoCAFS II, a FoamPro 2001 foam injection system, and a Tamrotor 220-cfm compressor. [Photo courtesy of the Mount Vernon (ME) Fire Department.]

Suppression Abilities

Troy Carothers, Darley’s AutoCAFS manager, who sold the pumper to Mount Vernon, says Darley previously had built a CAFS pumper for Mount Vernon on a GMC T8500 chassis in 1998 and a little over 10 years later built the department a quick-attack CAFS pumper on a GMC K5500 chassis. “The pumper-tanker they were replacing was a top-mount setup,” Carothers notes, “so they wanted another top mount for their new rig. They like the visibility the pump operator gets by being up and above the scene, especially when they are deploying and using a portable water tank.”

The new pumper Darley built for Mount Vernon has a Darley/Champion LDMBC 1,250-gallon-per-minute (gpm) single-stage pump, a PolyBilt body wi

Alan M. Petrillo

When the Mount Vernon (ME) Fire Department needed a new pumper to replace a 1986 pumper-tanker, it turned to W.S. Darley & Co. for another rig with a compressed-air foam system (CAFS), just like the department’s two previous Darley pumpers.

1 W.S. Darley & Co. built this CAFS pumper for the Mount Vernon (ME) Fire Department on a Freightliner M2 106 two-door chassis and cab with a PolyBilt copolymer body. (Photo courtesy of W.S. Darley & Co.)

“This is our third Darley pumper and our fourth Darley-built truck,” says Joe Lemieux, Mount Vernon’s captain. “We’ve been running CAFS for 18 years, and all of our pumpers have it, so we wanted our new pumper to have CAFS as well. Using CAFS on structure fires gives us the ability to get a quick knockdown so we can get to the source of the fire, and we also use less water and cause less water damage to the home.”

Lemieux points out that because of fire station physical restrictions, the department’s new pumper had to be built within certain parameters for its height, length, and wheelbase. The resulting 2016 Darley CAFS pumper came in at 30 feet 8 inches long overall, 9 feet 6 inches high overall, and has a 227-inch wheelbase. The rig is built on a Freightliner M2 106 two-door chassis with a PolyBilt copolymer body on a 16,000-pound front axle and a 24,020-pound rear axle. It’s powered by a Cummins ISL9 diesel engine and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission.

2 The Mount Vernon Darley pumper has a Darley/Champion LDMBC 1,250- gpm single-stage pump, a 1,000-gallon PolyBilt copolymer water tank with a 25-gallon integral foam tank, a Darley AutoCAFS II, a FoamPro 2001 foam injection system, and a Tamrotor 220-cfm compressor. [Photo courtesy of the Mount Vernon (ME) Fire Department.]

Suppression Abilities

Troy Carothers, Darley’s AutoCAFS manager, who sold the pumper to Mount Vernon, says Darley previously had built a CAFS pumper for Mount Vernon on a GMC T8500 chassis in 1998 and a little over 10 years later built the department a quick-attack CAFS pumper on a GMC K5500 chassis. “The pumper-tanker they were replacing was a top-mount setup,” Carothers notes, “so they wanted another top mount for their new rig. They like the visibility the pump operator gets by being up and above the scene, especially when they are deploying and using a portable water tank.”

The new pumper Darley built for Mount Vernon has a Darley/Champion LDMBC 1,250-gallon-per-minute (gpm) single-stage pump, a PolyBilt body wi