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Canaan Valley is a resort area in West Virginia; it seems to be popular for skiing and snowboarding, as well as warm-weather watersports (river rafting, etc.).

Added by Michael Feldman on 08 October 2012.

Would this area be part of the famous Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia.... I always think of the Laurel and Hardy song which epitomised this range

Added by Gary bolton on 08 October 2012.

Very true, you may wish to check out their website to see their impressive 6x6 engine-tanker.

Added by Warren W. Jenkins on 08 October 2012.

No, this is 100 miles west of Winchester, VA., Canaan Valley is deep in the Appalachians, about 30 miles due south of Oakland, MD.

Added by Warren W. Jenkins on 08 October 2012.

That's a nice tanker. BTW - looking at the nose and zooming a bit, you can read a motto. Montani Semper Liberi (Latin for "Mountaineers are Always Free") is the official motto of the state of West Virginia, USA. (Thanks, as always, to wikipedia:-))

Added by Michael Feldman on 08 October 2012.

Warren - this looks like a rear mounted pump. I hope this company did not try to "sell" US departments on the idea of buying rear-mount pumps, because very few departments here have bought them.

Added by Rob Johnson on 11 September 2013.

Yes, a rear-mount pump.Actually, many rigs such as brush trucks, brushbreakers, attack and mini -pumpers have been used in the US for many years with rear-mounted pumps.Since 1988, various US builders such as Saulsbury, Grumman, and E1 have marketed rescue-pumpers with rear mount pumps, to limited or no success.E1 did sell a few after buying Saulsbury, combining the HUSH chassis with a Saulsbury body, but this model was ended by emissions law changes by 2007.S&S, a now defunct tanker builder, had a successful line of brush/attack rigs in the 1990s utilizing rear pumps.

Added by Warren W. Jenkins on 12 September 2013.

Thanks Warren. I would have thought that with all the equipment being carried on rescue pumpers these days the rear-mounted pump would have gained more popularity, because it is so much more space-efficient - but it does not seem to be happening very often.

Mid mounts have all but disappeared in Europe: the only current example I can think of is Warsaw's E-One quint aerial ladder, but this is a fully-fledged US design (except for having the pump control panel on the right side).

Even the Australians, who used to love their mid-mount Internationals and Scanias, seem to be be moving over to rearmounts.

Japan of course continues to have almost exclusively mid-mount pumpers, because of their practice of carrying a hose cart in the rear compartment on their pumpers, and of course they do not have combination rescue pumpers and still operate a lot of separate rescue squad trucks because their rigs are just too small to combine a rescue squad with a pumper!



Added by Rob Johnson on 13 September 2013.

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