By Bill Adams In the industrial and manufacturing world, standardization is making multiple identical products to lower the cost per unit. The concept is embraced by most fire apparatus manufacturers (OEMs); however, it is detested by all but a very few fire...
The Pump Choice for Fleets Across the Country
By Jason S. Darley The Darley LDMX-MT is making waves from the Milwaukee (WI) Fire Department to Baltimore County, Maryland, and now on the West Coast. The LDM is currently being installed at one of our OEM partner facilities for the California Office of Emergency...
Darley 1.5AGE24K a Wildland Workhorse
By Jason S. Darley The Darley 1.5AGE24K has earned its position as a best-in-class wildland firefighting pump and continues to demonstrate why it maintains a strong market lead. The 1.5AGE pump is a high-pressure, low-volume, single-stage pump with a single impeller...
Sutphen Delivers Aerial Ladder Quint, Custom Pumper to Eden (NC) Fire Department
“We went to our dealer, Robert Stanley at Stevens Fire Equipment, and he had a 70-foot aerial platform quint demo that he brought over for us to examine,” says Todd Harden, Eden’s chief. “We were very pleased with the performance of the 75-foot aerial ladder quint we bought from Sutphen a few years ago, and decided to replace our 1991 Grumman Firecat 102-foot aerial platform with the Sutphen 70-foot platform.”
FDIC International 2021: Access Steps and Handrails
By Bill Adams After a year’s hiatus, the Fire Department Instructor’s Conference (FDIC) in Indianapolis, IN, had numerous apparatus on display from multiple vendors. In addition to unveiling new products and apparatus designs, most rigs were equipped with traditional...
Darley EM Pump Continues to Hold Its Own in Major Metro Fire Departments
By Jason S. Darley In 2013, a trend of many major metropolitan fire departments making the switch to Darley pumps began with the Charlotte (NC) Fire Department committing to move to a Darley EM 2000 pump. Many other departments, including those in Toronto and...
Darley Announces Availability of Smart Bottle®
Itasca, IL, July 13, 2021 – Darley, in partnership with KRW, has available three sizes of the Smart Bottle, a ruggedized, BPA-free, collapsilble bottle that stores flat but stands upright even when partially filled. It is ideal for disaster response and emergency...
NFPA-Mandated Flash Rates: Fast, Slow, or Not at All?
By Bill Adams This article is not an accusation that the writers of the National Fire Protection Association’s NFPA 1901 Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus purposely promulgate requirements that are conflicting, divergent, or confusing. They just appear to be....
Darley PSM Pump Surging in Popularity
By Jason S. Darley The Darley PSM 1500 Pump has continued to surge in popularity with many fire departments. Both the Detroit (MI) Fire Department and Boston (MA) Fire Department have been featured in recent Darley “We Switched” advertising campaigns as new Darley...
KIMTEK Unveils Large Capacity Firelite® FDHP-303-300 Brush Truck Skid Unit
May 25, 2021 – Orleans, VT – KIMTEK has added a large capacity model to its brush truck series skid unit lineup. The new Series FIRELITE® FDHP-303-300 skid unit is desired by departments needing larger water capacity, affordable brush truck units with...
Video: Frenchtown Township (MI) Pumper Walkaround
Neil Hawley of the Frenchtown Township (MI) Fire Department recently conducted a walkaround of his department's two new Sutphen custom pumpers. Check out the video below. "Thank you, Frenchtown Township Fire Department for your trust in Sutphen and your local dealer,...
Sutphen Delivers SPH 100 Aerial Platform Quint to Alabaster (AL) Fire Department
By Alan M. Petrillo Alabaster (AL) Fire Department has been a customer of Sutphen for several years, so when it needed an aerial apparatus to complement the Sutphen engines it already owned, it naturally turned to Sutphen to configure an aerial device that would best...