Kansas City area fire apparatus

[MFD76]

I see on the Pierce Flickr page that Overland Park is getting a new International 4x4 rescue type truck.

 

Yes it is under lock and key at the fire training center. It is a quad agent unit, foam A & B, Halatron, Dry Chem, Cardox. Even has a CAFS system for some reason. It has a cascade and light tower. It is 4x4 extended cab with middle jump seat and fold down officer seat. No Q siren which is odd. It does have a bumper turret. It is extremely unique as overland park is mainly residential and retail commercial. They do have some light industry-warhouses and quite a lot of major highway. They have a small section of the KCS rail road in the very southern part of there city and they have no air port. It is replacing the 1994 Freightliner/ Hesse beverage truck with rear command module Haz-Mat 41. Overland Park said the new unit must be called Rescue 41 due to the equipment carried for the county CAD system. I will have a photo soon. Each time I have been teaching at the fire academy the last few weeks it was unable to be moved outside due weather and lack of driver at the training center. 

 

Olathe also has a solid red four door version on order on an FL chassis with Pierce body. Olathe is quite the opposite as there is a large oil/ gasoline storage facility, grease plant, air port in the city an air port adjacent to the city, heavy-med-light industry, interstate, BNSF rail way consisting of the Santa Fe rail lines and Burlington Northern rail lines. It deffently will serve the city well. We are selling our 1996 FL/E-One pumper-foam tanker in favor of a new Pierce Contender tanker for Tender 7 and this Pierce quad agent unit.