Minnesota Apparatus

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[derry86]

Sounds like Duluth is taking major cuts. What is and was their staffing?

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[firesafe91]

Sounds like Duluth is taking major cuts. What is and was their staffing?

It is my understanding that there will be no loss of manpower. Several companies are being closed and existing personnel moved to other companies to ensure that each rig is staffed with 3 or 4 personnel at all times. Duluth used to run a single person engine company at Station 5. That station has since been closed. TriData did a study last year which can be found on the city's website.


Corrections welcome...

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These new Minneapolis pumpers are among the best designed, well-thought out new rigs for a city with narrow streets made more narrow by our snow challenges each winter. Thankfully, those in charge of the MFD now have the pragmatic sense of planning the last two chiefs lacked. For instance, Minneapolis used to be an almost exclusively tiller-town with the exception of a couple of well designed Sutphen towers. But, a chief or two ago decided that a quint concept was the way to go, and the city was delivered a bunch of (albeit well made) oversized rear-mount quints that were not at well suited for the neighborhoods they served, and a ridiculously long Pierce tower that, well, watch the video link... Then, some of the high value engine companies were given (again, well made but ill assigned) large Pierce pumpers that didn't suit the job.


This video is so worth watching & forwarding on: <a class="bbc_url" href='http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCx4YZt4hk'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSCx4YZt4hk</a>

 

Tractor-drawn aerials will solve most of that problem.

[fyrfoto]

Hopkins Rescue 8: 2013 F-550/Crimson 1250 GPM, 300 Gal Tank

 

 

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This truck looks like a disaster in the making in regards to weight and also a pump that is oversized for the chassis. Can an F550 do it all?

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This truck looks like a disaster in the making in regards to weight and also a pump that is oversized for the chassis. Can an F550 do it all?

I would agree weight is likely an issue, seeing more and more rigs like this, my belief is that if you go 4 door you have to eliminate the compartment before rear axle to shorten the wheel base and keep the ability to keep it under its gvw.  If you want that big a body plus the pump then it should be 2 door, can't have your cake and eat it too when your talking that small of a chassis.  As for the pump, i'm still skeptical but Darley is doing them w/ a 1500 gpm split shaft single stage pump and talking with the representatives at the Firehouse expo where they had one on display they claimed to have put it through all types of testing and trials, and they did it when it was in the upper 90's, humid and did it for prolonged time period, and claimed it worked very well w/o breaking a sweat.  

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St Louis Park Rescue 1:

 

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St Louis Park Rescue 1:

 

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Josh,

 

Is this a new mini-pumper for St. Louis Park or the same rig we shot last year during the Extra Alarm Association meeting?

 

Scott

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Scott there is one at each station.  R-2 is a couple years old and R-1 was delivered this year.   Both are Rosenbauer build with 750GPM pumps 250 GWT and 12GFT

[firesafe91]

Scott there is one at each station.  R-2 is a couple years old and R-1 was delivered this year.   Both are Rosenbauer build with 750GPM pumps 250 GWT and 12GFT

Thanks!!

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