Red Adair Award Presented to Chris Ferrara
Industrial Fire World magazine honored Chris Ferrara, owner of US Fire Pump, with its 2019 Red Adair Award in recognition of his accomplishments in improving fire equipment used in industrial firefighting.
Industrial Fire World magazine honored Chris Ferrara, owner of US Fire Pump, with its 2019 Red Adair Award in recognition of his accomplishments in improving fire equipment used in industrial firefighting.
Baker Fabrication's new system makes retrieving 12-inch hose a 1-person job.
Baker Fabrication's tracked Skid Steer and The Hose Mule flaking system trailer package uses an 18-foot bumper pull trailer with a hose box large enough for two rows of 12-inch hose, 1,000 feet in each bay of the trailer.
LyondellBasell responders use new aerial in Brayton Fire Training Field scenario.
Nearly 20,000 gallons per minute of the big flow originated from two US Fire Pump submersible units at a Louisiana training event.
A caravan of four different industrial apparatus scheduled for delivery made the two-day trek from Osceola, Wisconsin, to College Station, Texas.
Pierce Manufacturing’s newest fire truck, the Pierce High Flow Industrial Apparatus, is capable of flowing 5,500 gallons per minute when drafting, and up to 10,000 gallons per minute when drawing from a pressurized water source.
Responders reached a big flow of 49,000 gallons per minute from an array of deluge guns, pumps and large diameter hose lines during a June training operation by the New Jersey Urban Area Security Initiative Neptune Task Force.
In FDNY manuals, there are techniques to use ladders to: bridge over alleyways (also used over excavations), to replace burnt-out stairs, and to bridge over fences (utilizing two ladders lashed together).
E-One remains one of the few fire truck manufacturers to engineer and manufacture the cab, chassis, body and aerial in-house.
Aside from the obvious use of ladders for climbing, the use of ladders as a means of supporting a rope-based rescue system appears to have been born during the Second World War.
With a capacity of 18,000 gpm, think of Ferrara Fire Apparatus’ latest fire vehicle like a fully accessorized quick-attack truck designed to tackle fires as big as those in storage tanks.
Elkhart Brass made the new Magnum EXM to fit industrial aerials.
The Ward Diesel No Smoke 2 is an apparatus-mounted device that extracts particulate from diesel exhaust by means of a porous ceramic filter packed in a high-temperature cushion material and encased in stainless steel.
The Hose Mule and Hose Cart address the industrial fire service's most aggravating chore — retrieving large diameter hose.
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