Apparatus - Delivery: Pleasant Plains, NJ, Heavy Rescue

Rescue 1 built this heavy rescue for the Pleasant Plains Volunteer Fire Company on a Spartan cab and chassis.
Oct. 19, 2022

Spartan and Rescue 1 built this heavy rescue for the Pleasant Plains Volunteer Fire Company.

The six-person cab is equipped with Bostrom FF seats and has a flat roof cab. It is powered by a Cummins 450-hp L9 engine and an Allison 3000EVP transmission.

The Rescue 1 body includes ROM shutters, LED compartment lighting, slide-out tool boards and trays, along with a rooftop storage compartments.

It carries carries Hurst extrication tools, Paratech struts, a Wil-Burt Night Scan light tower, water and ice rescue gear, roof top storage compartments and has a Warn winch.

About the Author

Dennis C. Sharpe

DENNIS C. SHARPE is a 47-year member of the Farmington Volunteer Fire Company in Egg Harbor Township, NJ, where he serves as assistant chief. He is certified in high-angle and confined-space rescues and is a Level II instructor with the Atlantic County Fire Training Center.

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