If you missed Monday’s live walk-around of Miami-Dade (FL) Fire Rescue’s Hazmat, view the video right here or scroll down. To see and engage in the chat feature of the webinar platform, visit svitrucks.com/svi-live-series.
Riding on a Sutphen Monarch chassis, the apparatus is sold by South Florida Emergency Vehicles.
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The ARFF trucks are built on the E-ONE TITAN ARFF 4×4 AT chassis and cab, powered by a 500-horsepower Cummins X12 diesel engine.
Employees, dealers, customers, and local dignitaries all gathered on a day that Marion County Commissioner Michelle Stone and City of Ocala Mayor Ben Marciano both proclaimed as E-ONE Fire Truck Day.
Fire department training divisions should include some input from the mechanical division. As a mechanic, I can’t teach someone the proper way to put out a fire. I’m not trained for that. In the same breath, firefighters aren’t expected to know how the equipment they use works mechanically. Although firefighters don’t need to understand how to fix the equipment, a general understanding of how something works affects how they use it.
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