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Limeforever: Because we were fortunate to find a leftover chassis that the dealer had been sitting on for three years he was willing to take any offer to move it out of his inventory.We paid just over half of the original sticker for it . This gave us a tremendous ability to sit down and design our dream truck .
It has an eight bottle 6000 psi bank with a three bottle frag/fill station, the cascade system was our winning 03 AFG app. the compressor is at the station so we went with the 8 bottle bank to give us the ability to fill lots of bottles whether they are 2216 or 4500's.We can also fill SCUBA bottle for times when we are supporting the dive team in offshore rescue /recovery calls.
There is an eight foot cab at the front of the body with 4 rear facing SCBA seats so when we go mutual aid we can supply a full crew + officer packed and ready to go. All of our EMT's have been trained to operate the fill station and to provide proper medical evaluation and rehab. we managed to find room for a few folding camp chairs in an upper compartment so when a FF comes out of the fire ground he gets a quick evaluation and water while his bottle is changed . The command compartment also has full EMS supplies and an ALS bag /defib etc for the treatment of an injured or sick FF. Our SOG's allow the EMT's to pull the FF off the line with the full support of the chief and safety officer. We also have several backboards a floating stokes , & a little giant ladder on shelves above the bottle bank.
!5 KW harrison hydraulic genset is mounted up on the rear roof of the body behind a 20' pneumatic 4 head light tower. Rear of the truck has all the car crash toolsand equipment and a 200' cord real allowing us to pull power to the scene and dismountable tripod lights, plus the Kinman combi tool on a 100' reel on a slide out tray. They cut the rear frame behind the suspension and lowered it to make the roll out tray with jaws at thigh level instead of chest height.
Down the left side is a compartment with two portable gas powered pumps, an electric cellar pump, a huge PP ventilation fan, and storage above for all our rope rescue and safety lines along with a life-ring . mid comp has the bottle bank horizontal over the rear axle shifted to driver side to offset the weight of the frag chamber on pass side. front left has slide out tool board and the survival suit hang up closet with a ventilator to prevent the suits from getting moldy when put away wet. Front bumper compartment holds a 9000lb warn quick mount winch with receivers on all 4 sides of truck for mounting.
All of the above and it was about $200,000 less than quotes from the big boys to build a similar truck. Yankee frugality at it's best
It has an eight bottle 6000 psi bank with a three bottle frag/fill station, the cascade system was our winning 03 AFG app. the compressor is at the station so we went with the 8 bottle bank to give us the ability to fill lots of bottles whether they are 2216 or 4500's.We can also fill SCUBA bottle for times when we are supporting the dive team in offshore rescue /recovery calls.
There is an eight foot cab at the front of the body with 4 rear facing SCBA seats so when we go mutual aid we can supply a full crew + officer packed and ready to go. All of our EMT's have been trained to operate the fill station and to provide proper medical evaluation and rehab. we managed to find room for a few folding camp chairs in an upper compartment so when a FF comes out of the fire ground he gets a quick evaluation and water while his bottle is changed . The command compartment also has full EMS supplies and an ALS bag /defib etc for the treatment of an injured or sick FF. Our SOG's allow the EMT's to pull the FF off the line with the full support of the chief and safety officer. We also have several backboards a floating stokes , & a little giant ladder on shelves above the bottle bank.
!5 KW harrison hydraulic genset is mounted up on the rear roof of the body behind a 20' pneumatic 4 head light tower. Rear of the truck has all the car crash toolsand equipment and a 200' cord real allowing us to pull power to the scene and dismountable tripod lights, plus the Kinman combi tool on a 100' reel on a slide out tray. They cut the rear frame behind the suspension and lowered it to make the roll out tray with jaws at thigh level instead of chest height.
Down the left side is a compartment with two portable gas powered pumps, an electric cellar pump, a huge PP ventilation fan, and storage above for all our rope rescue and safety lines along with a life-ring . mid comp has the bottle bank horizontal over the rear axle shifted to driver side to offset the weight of the frag chamber on pass side. front left has slide out tool board and the survival suit hang up closet with a ventilator to prevent the suits from getting moldy when put away wet. Front bumper compartment holds a 9000lb warn quick mount winch with receivers on all 4 sides of truck for mounting.
All of the above and it was about $200,000 less than quotes from the big boys to build a similar truck. Yankee frugality at it's best
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