The Boynton Beach Fire Rescue Department Saturday held a push-in ceremony for its new custom-built Sutphen engine.

The apparatus has a 1,000-gallon tank and will be housed at Station 2, located at 2615 W. Woolbright Rd.

The Diaz Fire Department recently purchased a 2002 Ford F-350 Pierce brush truck via a $15,000 grant from the Jackson County Quorum Court and money from the City of Diaz.

The truck—which has a 250-gallons-per-minute, 250-gallon tank—replaces the department’s 1985 Chevrolet brush truck.

KME—Ashville (NC) Fire Department pumper. Severe Service XMFD cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump; 500-gallon polypropylene water tank; Harrison 3.6-kW generator; lowered hosebed; Roto-Ray warning light; Steertek front axle; FireTech LED scene lighting package. Dealer: Cameron Marler, Safe Industries, Easley, SC.

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By Mike Ciampo

In 2019, when Dave Prescott, a 20-year veteran of the fire service and Captain with the Palm Beach County (FL) Fire Rescue, attended a firefighting seminar, he felt embarrassed and frustrated about his lack of knowledge on some high-rise firefighting operational tasks and equipment.

Pressure Reducing Valves (PRVs) was one of the main topics presented at the seminar, and admittedly he lacked knowledge about these devices. These devices allow the diversion of liquid to limit excess pressure in a system. In general, a PRV is a safety device designed to protect a pressurized system during an over-pressured event. In addition, his department was in the process of updating its high-rise equipment and tactics, so, as a training instructor, he wanted to absorb all the information he could about this subject at the seminar.

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While there he attended a class that focused on the numerous types of PRVs found in the field and went over some of the problems the Philadelphia (PA) Fire Department encountered at the One Meridian Plaza fire in 1991. Coincidentally, this class was presented by one of his co-workers, Lt. Mike Casanova, who has a background in fire prevention. The class was very enlightening to him, and, after sitting in the lecture portion, outside hands-on classes followed which allowed the students to flow some water and work with a variety of valves.

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