Width: 8 feet, 2 inches
Height: 10 feet, 3/4 inches
(A 2020 Toyota Camry is 16 feet long and six feet wide)
Firefighting equipment
Foam cell capacity: 30 gallons
Pump capacity: 1,800 gallons per minute (enough to drain your backyard pool in less than 10 minutes)
Cab capacity: Four-door cab seats four fully outfitted firefighters
Ladder: 85 feet fully extended
Generators: Two Honda-powered generators for use on emergency scenes.
Engine
The diesel-fueled Cummins L9 develops 450 horsepower and 1,300 pound-feet of torque from 8.9 liters of displacement. (A 2.5-liter, four-cylinder Toyota Camry engine develops 202 horsepower in “sport mode” and 182 pound-feet of torque).
Longboat Key Fire Rescue Deputy Chief Chris Krajic served as the department’s lead in purchasing the $850,000 truck.
Kennebunk Select Board OKs purchase of new fire engine
KENNEBUNK, Maine – You’re going to see a new fire engine around town sometime next year.
The select board last week unanimously approved $587,750 for the purchase of a new 2021 pumper engine for the Kennebunk Fire Rescue Department from the Ohio-based Sutphen Corporation.
At the annual town meeting in July, voters approved the purchase and issuance of bonds totaling $600,000 to replace Engine 2, a 1992 Kovatch Firefox that is currently kept at the West Kennebunk Fire Station, according to Fire Chief Jeffrey Rowe.
To approve the purchase, however, the select board first needed to waive its purchasing policy on sole-source buying in order to take advantage of the same program the town used when it acquired Engine 4 in 2018. In that instance, the town went with the Houston-Galveston Area Council Collaborative, or HGAC, a bid and purchasing program that “collects pricing every two to three years on commonly purchased equipm