By Alan M. Petrillo
KME has delivered a second tractor drawn aerial (TDA) to Summerville (SC) Fire Rescue, two years after the first KME-built TDA arrived in town.
The rig is what Cameron Marler, apparatus sales representative for Safe Industries, who sold the TDA to Summerville, calls a “true truck, a straight TDA with no pump and no tank.” The 101-foot AerialCat™ TDA is built on a KME SSX™ LFD (long four door) cab and chassis with a 10-inch raised roof and seating for six firefighters, five of them in H.O. Bostrom Series 550 SCBA (self-contained breathing apparatus) seats, an AXIS Smart Truck Vehicle Monitoring System, a 101-foot Steel-Safe™ aerial ladder, and an EZ-MRS™ Aerial Maintenance Reduction system.
Overall length on the TDA is 58 feet 5 inches, overall height is 11 feet 5 inches, with a tractor wheelbase of 162 inches, and a trailer wheelbase of 343 inches. The front axle has a gross axle rating of 22,000 pounds, the tractor’s rear axle rates at 31,000 pounds, and the trailer axle has a rating of 23,000 pounds, Marler points out. The rig has a Steertek NXT front axle assembly, and is powered by a Cummins 656-horsepower (hp) X 15 diesel engine, and an Allison 4500 EVS automatic transmission.
The Summerville TDA has an overall length of 58 feet 5 inches, and overall height of 11 feet 5 inches.
Jason Behler, KME sales application engineer, says the Summerville TDA has a 101-foot vertical reach, a 94-foot horizontal reach, a 2.5 to 1 structural safety factor, a 500-pound unrestricted tip load, a 14-foot outrigger stance, a minus-7 degrees to plus 80-degrees elevation range, and a 7-inch display at the control console. The tiller cab features a no post windshield, he notes, and a green light on top of the body is visible from the tiller cab for better tiller operator orientation.
Roger Wnek, Summerville’s maintenance coordinator, says Summerville covers a population of 52,500 people from five fire stations staffed by paid firefighters and a small number of volunteers running five engines, two TDAs, a light/air heavy rescue hazardous materials unit, and BLS ambulance units, with three engines and a Sutphen aerial platform in reserve. “We’re the seventh largest city in South Carolina, being an outlying suburb of the city of Charleston,” Wnek said. “We cover three counties — Dorchester, Berkley and Charleston, and serve 19,000 households spread over 18 square miles of agricultural, woodland, open space, residential, commercial and industrial areas.”
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Posted: Sep 21, 2022
Jeremy Craft, Lehi fire chief, presented new renderings of Fire Station 84 at a station update given during the Lehi City Council meeting last week, HeraldExtra.com reported.
The new fire station will feature an open and modern design with a gray and red exterior and several glass walls. According to Craft, the glass throughout the building is not only meant to let in more natural light but also give members of the community a way to see into the station, the report said.
Station 84 will have dorm rooms, a workout area, a kitchen, a day room and a training room able to accommodate several fire departments training together at once.
The station’s U-shaped layout was designed so firefighters would be able to get out of whatever room they are in and into the apparatus bay, where fire trucks are kept, as quickly as possible. Both ends of the station have a direct path to the apparatus bay.
Station 84 will sit at 1500 North 3600 West in Lehi, costing the city $9.4 million to complete. Construction on Station 84 is set to begin within the next six to eight weeks and is estimated to be completed and open by January 2024.
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Posted: Sep 21, 2022
Slinger Fire Department invites everyone to its 2022 Fire Prevention Open House and education event on Tuesday, October 11 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Slinger Community Park, WashingtonCountyInsider.com.
There will be two different live fire Palmer house demonstrations designed to educate and entertain.
While you are there, check out the Slinger Fire Department’s newest truck specifically designed for long narrow driveways and tight spaces and the new water rescue boat.
Kids get a picture with Sparky, sit in the driver’s seat of a fire truck or enjoy the fire truck slide.
While at the event be sure to sign up for a raffle providing a ride home from school in a fire truck. Last year’s wining child enjoyed the celebration.
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