A 150 foot 2 ½” preconnect box supplies a 500 gpm TFT Blitz Fire monitor. The rear direct tank fill is located next to the hose box with a 25 foot 2 ½ inch soft suction left preconnected. A set of spanners and a hydrant wrench plus a 500 gpm fog tip for the portable monitor are also carried.
A side view of the rear 5 inch discharge, exterior valve, elbow with integral 2 ½” reducer. The rear five inch outlet is reduced down to 2 ½” hose for greater flexibility of the discharge.
A rear vision camera with microphone is located at the rear of the unit.
The officers side rear hose box holds a 200 foot 1 ¾” attack line with break-a-part nozzle and a spre for head. The rolls are hooked to a gated wye inside the compartment. Also carried is a spare roll of hose, storz spanners and a 5 inch hose clamp.
An EMS jump kit and six spare air bottles are all that is stored here. The broken plumbing was a result of filling the water tank on delivery. The pipe and fittings failed before the unit was ever put in service. The rear check valve on another unit failed so that rig could not hold water either.
These fittings and the ratchet hydrant wrench go on the supply line.
A pressurized water foam extinguisher ready to go in a wheel well compartment.
What a total waste of space for seldom used fittings and adapters.
The original equipment placement included an air pack way up high. A hose roller, hose and equipment hoist, wheel chocks located inside the compartment, insignificant fittings, adapters, spare nozzles, piercing nozzle, wyes, foam can wrenches, dead blow hammer, hose jacket, and a hose clamp eating up the entire compartment interior. The reducers and fittings, plus the dead blow hammer, wyes and foam car wrench were all connected together only needing a couple square inches of dead space, the hose clamp was relocated at the rear of the apparatus where it would be used, the spare nozzle located in the 2 ½” hose bed, the air pack placed in an unused area of another partially filled compartment and the piercing nozzles returned to the portable sprinkler system bag.
These wheel chocks found a home under the rig.
Two things only for ISO occupy a compartment.
Foam instruction plates are located inside a compartment versus cluttering the pump panel.
A preconnected 200 foot donut rolled CAFS attack line sits under the drivers side step. The donut roll load allows super low attack line placement, that can be pulled with all of the hose being pulled from the bed in less than 15 feet and all slack ends up with the nozzle for fire attack. A break-a-part TFT nozzle with adjustable slug tips makes great foam streams. All in compartment preconnects are supplied by a gated wye inside the compartment. The fog tip for the attack line nozzle is stored in the compartment. 375 feet of one inch hose and a break apart pistol grip nozzle is also available. Two spare 50 foot rolls of 1 ¾” hose are available to extend attack lines.
One spare 110 volt outlet is located behind the center rear air pack seat.
Exterior valves are used for quicl tool-free maintenance.
The overall view of the valved pump panel.
The small locked door houses a relief control, the pump panel light switch and the governor override switch.
The pump cooler and engine cooler valves are always stored open and locked up behind the upper locking door to protect the pump and diesel engine from overheating. All the CAFS controls are labeled with tags.
Behind the long locking panel is a gauge to read compressor hours, a quadruple flow meter to set the foam system, the pre-set Foam Pro control head, The compressor on/off switch, and an air connection and control valve supplied by the compressor.
A bleeder allows for removal of air in the line. An adjustable relief valve on the bottom of the valve protects the supply hose and pump from water hammer when properly set plus throws water hammer on the ground while charging supply lines.
The screw valve handle can be located on either side. The chrome knob allows the 5 inch elbow to swivel left or right.
The side intake valves give a visual indication of ball valve position.
The bottle shelf holds a portable sprinkler system and tool box. The top shelf holds an extrication blanket, plastic cribbing, rocker panel ram base and crash kit.
At one time this compartment was going to be wasted holding suction strainers, not any more.
A cartridge style fire extinguisher in its custom compartment.
The air reel with sawzall and air chisel in boxes. Of course proper tool placement will lose the boxes and preconnect everything for immediate use.
Large and small diameter discharges and suctions are configured for use. The squirrel tail hard suction uses a 4 inch strainer to reduce the flow restriction from the foot valve strainer.
Sensible Products mounts are used throughout the apparatus. Here a flat head and pick head axe are mounted ready to go. Note the spanners, hydrant wrench and storz spanner brackets and mounts.
Pry bars, halligan and bolt cutters stored on a pull out tool board.
Tool boards carry tools normally related to an over wheel long tool compartment.