federal wildfire engines seem to be mostly Type 6 Type 6 has 250 gallon water tank approx. on 2 door chassis
Type 3 have 500 gallon water tank on 4 door chassis Type 4 are 750 gallon tank on 4 door chassis ish ============================ all federal wildfire engines are Type 6 - EXCEPT - National Forests in California use Type 3 with 5 man crews instead of Type 6s USFS overall might have 75% TY 6 and 25% TY 3 BLM seems to have a ratio of 2 TY 6 to every 1 TY 4 - approx FWS has very few Type 3 - maybe 90% TY 6 - although we have not seen any good statistics in 20 years - they have 454 refuges iirc - they might have 500 engines - but maybe 80% are TY7 100 gallon slipon units BIA has very few TY 3 - maybe 3 TY6 to every one TY3 or TY 4 NPS has maybe a 50/50 split of TY3 and TY 6 if anyone gets really ambitious, they could go thru wildweb and get a very good breakdown on who has what -- 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/CAFXWwKaeW_UcWKNEWtLvqUcuNio0L1FOEbu%2BSGHa3mY2-hi4DQ%40mail.gmail.com.
