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APPARATUS OF THE MONTH

By John M. Malecky October, 2018

RIGS FROM MIDDLESEX AND ATLANTIC COUNTIES

This month we feature an extra photo due to the reduced dealer reporting. This is mainly due to the short interval between print dates and the time needed by them to prepare for the upcoming Firemen's Association Convention in Wildwood, which is always accompanied by an apparatus and equipment show.

More new rigs from Middlesex County (they seem to get them quite often!) are featured here, and some from Atlantic County. To review them we first come to the Edison Division Fire who received three Spartan ER pumpers assigned to Engines’ 2, 6 and 9. They are 2018 Metro Star models with 1500-GPM pumps, 750-gallon water tanks and a 6-kw generator. Two additional ones have been tagged on and are under construction. Also, Rescue 4, a 2017 Spartan Metro Star with 20-foot body, air cascade, 15-kw generator, Command Light and a 9,000-pound portable winch replaces one of the Freightliner rescue ambulances. They also received two light duty rescues on 2017 Ford F-550 chassis with non-walk-in bodies fabricated by First Priority Emergency Vehicles. These two vehicles will be used alternately to save wear and tear and will ride as Rescue 5 which replaces another Freightliner rescue ambulance. One of the rescue ambulances was built by Rescue 1 Mfg., and the other by MedicMaster.

Also in the same county is South Plainfield which received an E-ONE Cyclone II HP-100 platform quint with a Hale Qmax, 2000-GPM pump, UPF 300-gallon water tank and Smart Power 10-kw generator. It has a 1 ¾-inch front bumper line and a TFT Hurricane 2,000-GPM monitor in the platform. The last from Middlesex County is New Brunswick’s Rosenbauer Commander 100-foot mid-mount platform which has a 10-kw generator.

In Atlantic County, we are featuring two E-ONE’s from the Cardiff FC in Egg Harbor Township. The first is Tower 15, a 2000 Cyclone II with 2000-GPM pump, 125-gallon water tank and 105-foot platform. It has a 10-kw generator. The other is a 2018 rescue pumper on a Typhoon chassis. It has a 2000-GPM pump, 750-gallon water tank, 30-gallon Class “A" foam tank and 10-kw generator. Also in the county is the Collings Lakes FC in Buena Township and we chose their Tender 12-34, a 2000 Freightliner FL 112/S & S Infinity with 3000-gallon tank and 1250-GPM pump. This unit is also capable of fire attack and has five-inch hose behind the horizontal compartment doors at the driver’s side rear.

In dealer news, Campbell Supply has delivered a Spartan ER Metro Star pumper to Rahway (Union County) with 1500-GPM pump, 750-gallon water tank, 30-gallon foam tank and 6-kw generator. They are prepping a pumper for the Fair Lawn Fire Department in Bergen County.

Defender Emergency Products has received an order from the Totowa First Aid Squad (Passaic County) for a Medix RP-90 Metro Express ambulance on Ford E-350 chassis.

Fire & Safety Services received an order from Jersey City (Hudson County) for a Pierce Enforcer pumper. Pierce deliveries include an Enforcer pumper for Hamilton Township (Mercer County), an Arrow XT heavy duty rescue pumper for Bridgeton (Cumberland County), and a Velocity pumper and Velocity 75-foot quint with aluminum ladder for Lyndhurst (Bergen County).

Blaze Emergency Equipment reports one Sutphen delivery and one Sutphen order. The delivery is in the Colts Neck VFD (Monmouth County) and is a wet side pumper/tender. It is on a Kenworth T800 chassis with a Cummins ISX 15, 500-hp diesel engine. Specs include a hale Qmax 1500-GPM pump, 4000-gallon poly wet side tank, three 10-inch Newton Kwik Dump valves, four 2 ½-inch discharges, two 1 ¾-inch crosslays, one four-inch LDH discharge, one three-inch pre-piped deck gun and a 4000-gallon portable tank. One order is a custom rescue on a Sutphen Monarch chassis with eight-seat cab for the Pinewald Pioneer FC in Berkeley Township (Ocean County). Specs include a 21-foot custom Sutphen extruded aluminum, non-walk-in rescue body, Cummins ISL 9, 450-hp diesel engine, two LED Command Light towers, Onan 25-kw PTO generator, Sierra booster pump, four 6,000-psi bottle air cascade system, double SCBA cylinder frag tank, roof coffin compartments, air and electric cord reels, storage for 16 SCBA cylinders and total compartment storage customization. (See the "Still in Service" feature in this issue for the current truck.)

New Jersey Emergency Vehicles reports the following P.L. Custom ambulance deliveries: To the Brielle EMS (Monmouth County), a Type 1 Classic on a Forde F-450 chassis; to Bloomfield EMS (Essex County), a Medallion Type III on a Ford E-350 chassis, and a remount of the Ford F-450 chassis under a Classic module to the Bridgeton FD (Cumberland County).