Two new fire trucks for our Department, custom built by SPARTAN. Great engineers great people to deal with. 

Very nice! On the Poudre Fire Authority here, we had a mishmash of various engines and trucks until our B/C went to a chief's convention and saw a Spartan chassis. From then on we bought only Spartan. It actually saved money as we had only to stock parts for one chassis instead of 5 or 6. Absolute quality. Congrats.

Cheers, Mike

5 hours ago, Pop's Z said:

Very nice! On the Poudre Fire Authority here, we had a mishmash of various engines and trucks until our B/C went to a chief's convention and saw a Spartan chassis. From then on we bought only Spartan. It actually saved money as we had only to stock parts for one chassis instead of 5 or 6. Absolute quality. Congrats.

Cheers, Mike

Mike, this will be our third Spartan, with a rescue pumper scheduled for 2018 and a heavy rescue for 2019. We are rotating out of Pierce trucks for multiple reasons but Pirece's proprietary parts is one of those reasons.

JLP 

That looks like money...

3 hours ago, Patcon said:

That looks like money...

Just over 1M for the pair. Totally custom purpose built. 

5 hours ago, JLPurcell said:

Mike, this will be our third Spartan, with a rescue pumper scheduled for 2018 and a heavy rescue for 2019. We are rotating out of Pierce trucks for multiple reasons but Pirece's proprietary parts is one of those reasons.

JLP 

I worked at an electrical company for years located right across the street from Pierce. I watched what seemed like weekly plant tours for prospective buyers.

I have always wondered about the break in period for a fire truck engine, do they ever get a proper break in?  Seems like they would have to be pushed to the limit on the first time out of the Fire Hall.

I  always thought FD's would exploit drones and send them out with the trucks to do early reconnaissance.

 

A big bird to fly to the site and smaller UAV's inside the big one that could  be dispatched into the site would help prep the team.

 

Maybe I watched too much International Rescue/Thunderbirds as a kid.

2 hours ago, 240260280 said:

I  always thought FD's would exploit drones and send them out with the trucks to do early reconnaissance.

 

A big bird to fly to the site and smaller UAV's inside the big one that could  be dispatched into the site would help prep the team.

 

Maybe I watched too much International Rescue/Thunderbirds as a kid.

We have just launched a drone program. Not quite as you imagine, but they will evolve. We have 5 drones at this time, one has a 15K thermo-image camera.  

Excellent! Nice to hear!   I think they will also be useful in man-down situations too. 

 

 

Grannyknot, our Spartans were "road delivered" by our mechanics so they were well on the way to being broken in by the time they got here. Also, I'm pretty sure the engines were run at the factory as the pumpers had to pass a pump test before they were accepted. So by the time the engines (in the fire service a truck with a pump on it is called an engine, one without is called a truck like a heavy rescue vehicle or an aerial apparatus like a tower or a ladder truck) were put into service they were ready to go. Hope this answers your question.

Cheers, Mike
 

Blue, the drones would only be useful on the outside of buildings. Man down inside situations would not work so well. Poudre Fire Authority here uses drones for wildland fires and on big complexes like apartments, shopping malls, and large industrial complexes. An aerial view is a great tool for fire operations.

Cheers, Mike