APPARATUS OF THE MONTH

By John M. Malecky                                                            February, 2025

UNITS FROM MIDDLESEX AND MONMOIUTH COUNTIES

This month we cover units from the two above counties, as they are popular ones to photograph apparatus. In fact, the photos shown this month are simply a select group. There are many more to come in future columns. For Middlesex County, we selected first Perth Amboy with their new MetalCraft Marine fire/rescue boat (Marine 5), which replaces their older one. It is the Firestorm 38 (39-feet in length). It has a 13-foot 3-inch beam, two Cummins QSC, 6.7, 480 hp diesel engines, twin Darley 3,000-gpm pumps which run off of the front of the engines, Hamilton 322 jets, a rear recovery deck, a front manually operated Elkhart monitor, an Elkhart roof monitor and two Elkhart Copperhead monitors aft. Next are two used apparatus. One is Truck 3 (a spare), a 1994 Pierce formerly of Harrington Park in Bergen County, and the other is Engine 4, a 1994 Pierce Lance formerly from Green Township in Sussex County. Perth Amboy currently has new apparatus on order. Also in Middlesex County is South Old Bridge in Old Bridge Township E-22, a Spartan ER, S-180 Metro Star pumper. The next three are in Monmouth County, namely a 2020 Pierce Impel pumper from Keansburg, a 2024 Seagrave 95-foot Aerialscope from Asbury Park, and from Belmar, a 2022 Kenworth T-370 Custom Fire heavy rescue.

Tuckahoe in Upper Township (Cape May County) has received the last KME apparatus to be delivered by the previous dealer. It is a rescue pumper on a custom chassis.

We have learned that the Dennis FC in Dennis Township (Cape May County) has purchased their first aerial piece, a 2007 Pierce Enforcer 75-foot, which will become known as Ladder 18. It was sold by Command Fire Apparatus from Pennsylvania, who sells used fire trucks.

While on the subject of Pierce, the Arrow XT and Quantum chassis have been discontinued. Any deliveries we may post from here on would be trucks previously on order.  

From Fire & Safety Services, here are the following Pierce orders: for Jackson Township District 1 (Cassville FC, Ocean County) an Enforcer pumper, for Bedminster/Pottersville (Somerset County), a Freightliner 3000-gallon dry side tanker, for Kinnelon (Morris County), an International 3000-gallon tanker, in Bergen County, three units: a Saber pumper for New Milford FC 2, and Enforcer pumper for Saddle Brook and an Enforcer stainless steel pumper for Carlstadt. Pierce deliveries include a Saber pumper to Hillsborough Township Fire District 1 (Somerset County), an Enforcer pumper to Sparta (Sussex County), an Enforcer pumper to Little Silver (Monmouth County) and an Enforcer pumper to the Old Bridge VFD, East Brunswick Fire District 1 (Middlesex County).

Campbell Supply Co., LLC has received the following orders: two Spartan ER Star pumpers on Metro Star chassis. One for the Edison Division of Fire (Middlesex County) and the other for New Milford FC 1 (Bergen County). The Edison one has a low hose bed, MFD cab with 10-inch raised roof, Hale Qmax 1500-gpm pump and 750-gallon water tank. The New Milford one has an LFD cab with 10-inch raised roof, Waterous CSU 1500-gpm pump and 500-gallon water tank. There are four for Middlesex County. For the Health Department, three units: an EVI Field Operations Unit with 16-foot command body on a Ford F-600, 4x4, two door chassis. It will have an enclosed lavatory. The second is an ASAP Medstat Intimidator UTV, 4x4 utility vehicle with enclosed patient compartment, 4 kw generator, HVAC and LED scene lights. The third is a Ward squad truck on a Ford F-600 4x4 two door chassis. It will be a Utility Squad with a 15-foot non-walk-in body, a 300-gallon water tank and a Darley 2 ½ AGE single-stage centrifugal pump rated at 250-gpm. Next is for the Fire Marshal’s Office and is a Spartan 3000-gallon Star elliptical tanker on a Freightliner 114 SD chassis with a Waterous CSU 1500-gpm pump.  

Blaze Emergency Equipment received an order from Green Village (Morris County) for a Sutphen Monarch pumper with a 1500-gpm pump and 620-gallon water tank.

E-ONE pumpers are on order, one for Magnolia in Camden County. It will be a Typhoon with stainless steel body and the other for District 6 of Parsippany-Troy Hills (Morris County), will be a Cyclone 1500/1000/30.

Defender Emergency Products has delivered to the Freewood Acres FC in Howell Township (Monmouth County) a Rosenbauer pumper/tanker. It is on a Peterbilt 389 chassis and has a 3000-gpm pump and a 4850-gallon water tank. The pump panel is behind a roll-up door.

New Jersey Emergency Vehicles has delivered to the South Branch Emergency Services (Hunterdon County) a remount of a P. L. Custom Medallion 170 ambulance onto a Ford E-450 chassis.

VCI Emergency Vehicle Specialists has delivered to the Edgewater EMS (Bergen County) a Horton 553 ambulance on a Ford E-450 chassis.