Pennsville Volunteer Fire Company No. 1, Pennsville Township, Salem County, NJ, recently took delivery of a 2016 KME Predator XL rescue pumper. It has a four-door, seven occupant, climate controlled cab with a raised roof and full-height rear doors. It's also equipped with Bostrom firefighter seats. It's powered by a Cummins ISL 450-hp engine and an Allison 3000EVS transmission. To fight fire, it has a Hale 1,500 gpm pump, and a 500-gallon UPF Poly III tank.
Other equipment includes a Kussmaul auto-eject battery conditioning system, LED compartment lights, slide-out tool trays and boards, saws, fans, tarps, forcible entry tools, and coffin-style top compartments with a rear stairway. Other equipment includes a Will-Burt Night Scan light tower, Hurst extrication tools, R.O.M. roll-up doors, Fire Research Corp. scene lighting and a Federal Q2B mechanical siren as well as an electronic siren.
It also has a Stokes rescue basket, a refrigerator and gear for high-angle, water and rope rescues. It has a rear ladder tunnel, a TFT Blitz Fire monitor, two Little Giant ladders, an air cart, bottle jacks Maxi-Force air bags, cribbing, under chassis compartments, front bumper extrication tools with two hydraulic reels, and a Roto-Ray.
It was sold through 1st Priority, Manchester, NJ, by Fred Hundt. The cost was approximately $650,000.
