On October 4, the Thomasville Fire Rescue held a traditional Push-In Ceremony to commission its newest 2022 Sutphen Quint fire engine and place it into service, TimesEnterprise.com reported. 

Thanking the council and the city manager for allowing the purchase of the fire engine, a fire official said that it wasn’t the fire department’s truck, it belonged to the community that had entrusted them with it, the report said.

A city official said that the presence of the community for the ceremony was an indication of how Thomasville feels about the service that Thomasville Fire Rescue provides for them, according to the report.

An additional ceremony would be held in a couple of months to mark the commissioning of a similar engine, the report said.

The Denver Fire Department asked drivers to remember to drive safely after two Lamborghinis crashed in front of a fire station October 6, KKTV.com reported.

Fire department officials shared Friday that the accident occurred in front of Denver Fire Station 1, and one of the cars caught fire in that station’s front yard.

CBS Colorado reported that the drivers of both cars were arrested Thursday night and are facing DUI, reckless driving and speed exhibition charges, the report said.

The Durham Fire Department is getting a new fire truck, WRAL.com reported.

The department will welcome Fire Engine 1 during a 2 p.m. Sunday housing ceremony at 139 East Morgan Street. The event is free to the public and the department will provide refreshments.

In September, Engine 1 was featured at the Sustainable Fleet Technology Conference and Expo in downtown Durham, the report said.

The Durham Fire Department’s new engines are powered by Harrison hPower Idle Reduction Technology, meaning they can run off battery power when the engine is sitting in idle and not pumping water. It reduces fuel costs, reduces excessive engine wear and promotes cleaner air for the environment, according to the report.

The new truck is expected to be one of the fire department’s busiest, the report said.

By Alan M. Petrillo

Fluvanna (NY) Fire Department needed a rescue-pumper with a large water tank, plenty of storage capacity, and lots of LED lighting to cover the variety of fire suppression and rescue situations that it experiences in the Chautauqua Lake area of western New York State, so to fulfill those particular requirements the department turned to HME Ahrens-Fox.

Walid Al-Jabiri, Fluvanna’s first assistant chief, says the department provides fire, rescue and EMS services to four townships along the eastern coast of Chautauqua Lake where there are only dry hydrants. Fluvanna is an all volunteer department with 40 active firefighters operating out of two stations that houses two engines, one tanker, an ambulance and a rescue truck supplied by the county that protect a combination of suburban and rural residences, commercial structures, schools, nursing homes, the Jamestown airport, and two major state highways.

“We needed to replace an aging mid-1990s Pierce engine that had been eaten away by the salt and snow that we get out here in western New York,” Al-Jabiri observes. “Besides, the old engine only had seating for four firefighters.”

Russell Chick, HME Ahrens-Fox’s marketing and communications director, says HME built a rescue-pumper for the department on an HME AF1 chassis and MFDxl-12 cab with a galvanized frame, stainless steel body, and a one-piece windshield, with seating for six firefighters, five of them in H.O. Bostrom SCBA (self contained breathing apparatus) seats.

Chick says the rescue-pumper has a wheelbase of 194 inches, an overall length of 32 feet 8 inches, and an overall height of 9 feet 7 inches, powered by a Cummins L9 diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission. He notes that the Fluvanna rescue-pumper has a Hale Qmax 1,500 gallon per minute (gpm) pump, a 1,000-gallon water tank, a 30-gallon UPF Poly® foam tank, and a Hale FoamLogix 2.1 foam proportioning system.

Al-Jabiri says the new rescue-pumper has a front bumper line of 100 feet of 1-3/4-inch hose; three cross lays, two 1-3/4-inch and one 2-1/2-inch hose lines of 215 feet each; and a Task Force Tips deck gun with Extend-a-Gun fixture.

“We carry 1,000 feet of 4-inch LDH (large diameter hose) in our hose bed, along with 300 feet of 2-1/2-inch dead lay, and 300 feet of 3-inch dead lay,” h