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but they only handle wildfires mostly they might order up some TY1 and TY2 engines once in a while for structure protection - but that would not be a 'direct dispatch' since the feds dont have any TY1 or TY2 engines (structural engines) - except in the military and at some NPS sites of course the difference between a TY1 or TY 2 and a wildfire engine is very slim - all have water tanks from approx 300 gallon to 1000 gallons - with pumps from 50 gpm to 2000 gpm - but the truck chassis all pretty much the same - 200 hp to 500 hp engines etc its not like a TY1 engine is 5 times larger than a TY3 engine - they are nearly the same size in many cases just for laughs - consider this - what if EVERY fire engine in the USA had a 500 gallon tank and a 500 gpm pump (pto) with AWD - what real difference would it make? - airports - refinerys - deserts - mountains - what difference would it make? how many extra lives would be lost if EVERY fire truck in the USA was 500/500? 1 or 2? if anything - it just might save an extra 100 lives per year - considering that a 500/500 can travel down a road quicker than a lumbering pumper / tanker with a 2000 gallon tank just stating the facts -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/massfire/CAFXWwKZArqAJfsqWQDMH7mCdASasxuyF0W%2B%3DCe8-U606tpM5Uw%40mail.gmail.com.
