50 Engine

Vital Statistics

Year 1976 (refurb 1998)
Make/Model Hendrickson
Engine/Fuel Detroit Diesel 8V71/Diesel
Purpose(s) Fire Suppression/Aerial Water Supply/Salvage & Overhaul
Specialized Equipment 54 foot (16m) Squrt water tower
Notes 50 Engine is RMES's second due pumper truck. It carries 710 gallons of water and can pump it at 1250 gallons per minute. Like 50 Pump the truck has several hundred feet of hose in many sizes, from 38mm (1 1/2 inch) to 125mm (6 inch), to do every job from hand line attack to supplying other fire apparatus. It carries all the ladders, tools, and equipment necessary to fight a fire inside or outside of a building as well.
The truck's major piece of equipment is the 'Squrt' water tower, which can raise and rotate just like an aerial ladder without the ladder. At the end is a large nozzle, which can flow 1000 gallons per minute. If necessary, this truck can take (and has taken) the place of an aerial ladder's water tower at a fire scene.


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