Boonville (NY) Fire Company Gets Rescue-Pumper from Toyne

Toyne Fire Apparatus built this rescue-pumper for Boonville Fire Company. (Photos courtesy of Toyne Fire Apparatus)
Toyne Fire Apparatus built this rescue-pumper for Boonville Fire Company. (Photos courtesy of Toyne Fire Apparatus)

By Alan M. Petrillo

Boonville Fire Company needed to replace two 30-year-old apparatus and decided to combine the purchase into a single rig that could perform two functions. Boonville had purchased a pumper-tanker from Toyne Fire Apparatus in the past, and decided to have Toyne build it a new rescue-pumper.

Dave Pritchard Jr., Boonville’s fire chief, says Boonville provides fire, rescue, and emergency medical services (EMS) response to a 72-square mile district from a single station with 67 volunteer firefighters. “Last year we had 140 fire calls and 1,200 EMS calls,” Pritchard points out. “Our fleet consists of a Toyne pumper-tanker, a KME pumper-tanker, two engines, a KME 102-foot aerial ladder platform, a tanker, a brush truck, a heavy rescue, and two ambulances.”

The Boonville rescue-pumper has a Hale Qmax 2,000-gpm pump, a UPF Poly 1,000-gallon water tank, a 25-gallon foam cell, and a FoamPro foam system.

Pritchard notes that the village of Boonville was scheduled to purchase a new fire apparatus for the fire company every 20 years, “but that time frame got extended and it’s been awhile since they bought us a new truck. Once they decided to do so, we figured we’d combine a rescue and a pumper into one rig, especially because we have limited staffing during the daytime.”

Dan Ford, sales representative for JPB Fire Sales, who sold the Toyne rig to Boonville, says that Toyne had a rescue-pumper demo unit on its production line “that was pretty much what Boonville was looking for.” It’s built on a Spartan FC-94 chassis and medium four-door (MFD) cab with a 10-inch raised roof, and seating for six firefighters, five of them in H.O. Bostrom self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) seats.

The top mount pump panel on the Boonville rig.

Ford adds that the rescue-pumper has a 211-inch wheelbase, an overall length of 34 feet 2 inches, and an overall height of 9 feet 11-1/2-inches, powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission. The rig carries a top mount Hale Qmax 2,000 gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump, a UPF Poly® 1,000-gallon water tank, a 25-gallon foam cell, a FoamPro foam system, and a 100-foot 1-3/4-inch jump line and a 5-inch front suction inlet in the front bumper.

Prichard says the rescue-pumper has a Task Force Tips deck gun, two speedlays of 200 feet of 1-3/4-inch hose under the pumphouse crosswalk, two 200-foot 1-3/4-inch hose preconnects in each corner of the hosebed, as well as 500 feet of 3-inch hose and 1,000 feet of 5-inch large diameter hose (LDH). He notes that one of the officer’s side compartments holds a Holmatro battery-powered spreader, cutter, two rams, and airbags, and a Stokes basket and backboard storage is embedded in the hosebed. Ground ladder storage is through the tank.

The rescue-pumper’s extended front bumper holds a 1-3/4-inch hoseline in a covered compartment and a 5-in intake.

Ford says the rig has four coffin compartments, a Federal Q2B siren, Whelen LED emergency lighting, a Whelen Freedom IV LED light bar, a HiViz FireTech LED brow light, and FRC Spectra LED scene lighting.

Two of the H.O. Bostrom seats in the six person cab.

ALAN M. PETRILLO is a Tucson, Arizona-based journalist, the author of three novels and five nonfiction books, and a member of the Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment Editorial Advisory Board. He served 22 years with the Verdoy (NY) Fire Department, including in the position of chief.

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