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What's the pumping power of the large Scanias?

Added by Neil on 30 April 2018.

Registered DX62 GXL, this machine served at day-crewed Lichfield as their Pump Rescue Tender, but was recently displaced by the arrival of a snazzy, if slightly unusual and very radical, Volvo Rosenbauer AT Pump Rescue Ladder. It is now on-the-run at retained Uttoxeter as a Pump Rescue Ladder.

Added by Yelp Bullhorn on 06 March 2021.

Good to see you around here still Yelp. I for one am glad to see Rosenbauer getting a look in nowadays. Are they likely to be kept by the WT stations indefinitely or will they be passed down in future to the retained stations and replacements ordered in due course?

Added by David on 18 March 2021.

Hi David. Not sure how it’s going to pan out really, except historically Staffordshire do “hand down” their pumps so we’ll have to see. The eleven Volvo Rosenbauer pumps are now on-the-run at all of Staffordshire’s wholetime and day-crewed stations, i.e., Leek, Longton, Hanley, Newcastle, Sandyford, Burton, Stafford, Lichfield, Tamworth and Cannock. With the eleventh going to Staffordshire’s busiest retained station, Penkridge.

Added by Yelp Bullhorn on 13 April 2021.

Yelp

It would be interesting to know how many runs they make?

Added by Rob Johnson on 15 April 2021.

Stafford and Longton have recently each received an “Enhanced” Rescue Pump, which will see the county’s sole Rescue Tender, based at Longton, removed from service. The two ERPs are Rosenbauer ATs, but are on the larger Scania chassis. Crews have completed rescue/equipment training, and are now undergoing driver training, and so should both be on-the-run very soon. Not sure if the displaced Volvo ATs will become their station’s second pump, or whether they will move to other stations.

Added by Yelp Bullhorn on 05 January 2025.

ERTs are Ok so long as they carry enough fire fighting gear to be able to act as a 1st attendance.

Added by Neal Glover on 05 January 2025.

Hopefully this will improve response times at incidents requiring major rescue equipment, with two units covering an area previously having only one. As with everything else, the devil is in the details. If they carry everything that the old RT had, great! If not, what is missing? If they do, what part of the pumper equipment is missing? Fire services everywhere are trying to reduce costs by having fewer and more versatile trucks, as well as doing the same job with fewer people, and in some ways that is all good. But sometimes they end up with - as we used to say in Yorkshire, “tis neither owt nor nowt”.

Added by Rob Johnson on 05 January 2025.

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