IN Fire Department Replaces 28-Year-Old Tanker with Pumper-Tanker

By Al Petrillo, Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment

The Fremont (IN) Fire Department wanted to replace a 2008 CSI Spartan tanker that had outlived its useful life and decided to go with a pumper-tanker that could serve all the non-hydranted areas of its 90-square-mile fire district, as well as complement the department’s first-due rescue-pumper.

Eric Hufnagle, Fremont’s fire chief, says the department has three full-time paid firefighters and 31 paid on-call firefighters operating out of a single station. “We currently run a 2018 Spencer rescue-pumper, a 2012 78-foot Rosenbauer aerial quint, two CSI tankers, two brush trucks, a basic life support (BLS) medical unit, a rescue boat, and a dive trailer,” Hufnagle points out. “We needed to replace one of the CSI tankers and decided to go back to Spencer for a pumper-tanker because we had such a good experience with them when we bought a rescue-pumper.”

The Fremont pumper-tanker has a side-mount 1,500-gpm Waterous CSU pump, an 1,800-gallon water tank, an FRC™ governor, dual 4-inch tank-to-pump valves, and a Trident™ dual air primer.

Ben Bregg, sales engineer for Spencer Manufacturing, says the pumper-tanker that Fremont acquired is built on a Spartan Metro Star™ long four door (LFD) cab and chassis with seating for six firefighters. It has a Spencer Solid-Poly® body, a single rear axle, and is powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 engine and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission. Bregg adds that the rig has a side-mount 1,500-gallon-per-minute (gpm) Waterous CSU pump, an 1,800-gallon water tank, an FRC™ governor, dual 4-inch tank-to-pump valves, and a Trident™ dual air primer.

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