From WS Darley & Co.
The Darley Company is proud to build another AutoCAFS pumper for the River Forest, IL, Fire Department. It is built on a Spartan MetroStar custom chassis with 450 hp Cummins engine also has a 20-inch raised roof to allow for the Darley Command Cab to be constructed with fully enclosed, climate controlled, Vision style interior pump panel controls. It is equipped by a Darley model LDMBC 1,500-gpm pump featuring the AutoCAFS pumping system is plumbed to six compressed air foam discharges. It has a PolyBilt copolymer body with seven large compartments surrounding the integral 525-gallon water tank and 30-gallon foam tank. The poly body has a slide in ladder tunnel through the water tank. An Onan 8,000-watt hydraulic generator powers an electric cord reel and numerous outlets.
2017 Spartan MetroStar/Darley 1500/525. WS Darley photo
thanks Ron
#1 by Michael M on December 19, 2017 - 6:03 AM
Nice to see a Darley engine! I do like the enclosed top mount pump panel. The top mount enclosed pump panel is something you do not see a lot here in the states. Does anyone know if it is more common to see enclosed top mount pump panels in Canada?
#2 by Mike L on December 18, 2017 - 9:11 PM
All in good fun, sir! Terminology varies all over the fire service, that’s for sure.
#3 by Crabby Milton on December 18, 2017 - 5:55 PM
It must be Monday since everyone seems to want to pick on me today. 🙂
I’m just going by what I hear on the scanner.
I guess terms are different all over. Operator is a good one I think I heard once.
#4 by Mike L on December 18, 2017 - 12:32 PM
Watch those overpasses!!! LOL!!
Crabby, nobody knows what HEO (Heavy Equipment Operators) means down here. LOL!! Down here they’re engineers. No room for those cheesehead terms down here in FIB-land.
#5 by CrabbyMilton on December 18, 2017 - 11:43 AM
Nice to see that DARLEY still keeps on keeping on.
You can tell that they thought about the HEO being that the pump panel is enclosed.