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 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.”

Ken Diaz, a past chief at Ringwood and chair of the truck committee, says his fi

KME—Jamestown (PA) Fire Department rescue pumper. Panther LFD with 10-inch raised roof cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Darley LDMBC 1,500-gpm pump; 750-gallon polypropylene water tank; 30-gallon foam cell; Darley Odin 200 CFM CAFS; FoamPro 2002 single-agent foam system; Will-Burt Night Scan 2.6 600 Whelen LED 12v light tower; FRC 360 camera system. Dealer: Tom Ball, Keystone Fire Apparatus, McKees Rocks, PA.

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LINN COUNTY (OR) – Officials are investigating after one person died and others were injured in a crash that involved a fire truck Monday night, KEZI.com reported. 

This happened two miles west of Sodaville-Waterloo Drive, at milepost 17, east of Lebanon, the report said. 

Officials with Oregon State Police said one person died, and several others were injured. Check back here for updates.

Dozens of people embraced a beautiful fall morning Monday to watch the city break ground on a new fire station, Recorder.com reported.

Mayor Roxann Wedegartner kicked off the ceremony at the former open-air market property on Main Street near Coombs Avenue before Fire Chief Robert Strahan addressed the crowd and welcomed speakers from the project’s consulting and design firm, as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the city’s Fire Station Building Committee, the report said.

The station at 41 Main Street is expected to be completed in a little more than a year at a cost of $21.7 million, according to the report.