APPARATUS MAINTENANCE: A Priority, Not a Choice

It used to be that the local service station could maintain and repair the community fire engine. However, as the fire service's needs expanded, the horsedrawn hand pumpers gave way to front-mounted, 500-gpm pumps, and then to apparatus having 2,500-gpm, multi-stage pumps with relief valves, drafting devices, intricate control panels, foam eductors, automatic transmissions, air shifts, and a myriad of other mind-boggling, electro-mechanical features.

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