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Does this pumper have a water tank? Can you tell us some of the equipment carried on this unit.

Added by Les Davis on 04 September 2013.

The main ground ladder is a three-section 15 meter extension. Much lighter construction than the 13.5 used in the UK.

Added by Rob Johnson on 04 September 2013.

Les - The Paris FPT does indeed have a water tank, and is a general purpose pumper. As such, it carries a broad collection of firefighting equipment, rescue gear, forcible entry tools and ground ladders in addition to hoses and engine company equipment. Generally, it is very similar to pumpers in many other European countries and the equivalent of a US quad combination, because these European pumper crews perform search and rescue, ventilation and overhaul at fires, which is usually the task of ladder companies here.

This Mercedes Atego chassis is found in France, the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, Italy, Austria, Switzerland and of course all over Germany as a basis for pumpers like this one - and for many other fire apparatus applications.

The one-man hose carts hung on the back of this Paris pumper are mainly found only in Germany and France. Each has ten 20 meter preconnected lengths of 70mm hose, which is used both for hydrant hook-up and for attack lines. They have Stortz type couplings and can be stretched either way. They also carry two 15 meter 45mm hoses for interior attack, a Y and a variable displacement nozzle. There is also a high pressure booster reel above the rear-mounted pump inside the rear locker.

The Paris fire service invented the hook ladder close to a hundred years ago and still carries them on all first due pumpers. (One is visible on the roof, at the rear on the left side.) And they really do use them, too, in Paris' inaccessible courtyards and narrow back streets. Fortunately, the corps is a brigade of the French military, with a very youthful, aggressively trained and extremely fit membership!

The FPT carries a crew of five and usually responds with a PS (combination light pumper and ambulance) and a ladder truck.

Added by Rob Johnson on 05 September 2013.

FPT = Fourgon Pompe Tonne; fourgon = truck, tonne = tank. Rob, thanks for all the detail about the equipment on these. It is indeed equivalent to a US quad (pump/tank/hose/ground ladders); I'm always amazed at how much stuff the European builders squeeze into a small vehicle, complete with crew cab!

Added by Mike Feldman on 06 September 2013.

Hi Mike!I totaly agree with you about !Im not shure, if there is any pictures on the countryside for Germany, of a pumper with sidelockers open.If, you can see all that stuff they put in, I have seen a german modelbuilder, who maked a TLF 16 in Ho-scale(model railway-scale).And it was really plenty of stuff!!!!

Anders F.Sweden.

Added by Anders Fallström on 28 June 2014.

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