Perhaps more amazing though this super pumper fire truck can reach flow rates of 10 000 plus gpm from a pressurized source giving it a 500 plus foot horizontal stream making it the go to apparatus among industrial fire departments for refinery and petro chemical fires.
Super pumper fire truck.
Water relay with at least 3 fire engines.
With the us fire pump hvp pump world record flow rates of over 10 000 gpm from a pressurized source are achievable with just one pumper.
With an impressive horizontal reach of up to 500 feet the super pumper fire truck is also capable of vertical reach factors with industry standard monitor systems.
William francis gibbs a naval architect who designed new york s largest fire boat had been thinking for years about a land based super sized pumper truck and was able to use this fire to convince the fdny to let him design it and have mack trucks build it.
Forged in louisiana s petro chemical alley the ferrara inundator super pumper was designed with the purpose of exceeding the increasing flow demands of today s high application rate storage tanks and process units.
The super pumper itself was a tractor drawn unit that.
Some images of the disbanded fdny s super pumper system and it s satellite rigs.
One truck every response as a true first response vehicle the mvp rescue pumper combines the water flow power of a custom pumper with the equipment storage space of a rescue unit into one truck capable of responding to fire ems rescue hazmat and salvage events.
Ferrara inundator super pumper fire truck was designed for exceeding the flow demands of today s high application rate storage tanks and process units.
The super pumper the super pumper was part of a five truck system that included the super pumper the tender and three satellite tenders.
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