Ferrara Inundator Super Pumper

I was an Auxiliary Fire Captain during the 60s with FDNY. I was assigned to The Community Relations Bureau and rode with the ORIGINAL SUPER PUMPER AND ITS SATELLITES. It's amazing how everything has become so very streamlined. The FDNY Super Pumper was a Marine Pumper on a modified trailer. Damn thing could knock down walls. We responded to every second alarm below 59th Street in Manhattan New York City with the entire Super Pumper system. The Satellites responded to every Second alarm in Brooklyn, Queens, The Bronx and Staten Island. The entire Super Pumper System responded to every Third Alarm Fire in the City of New York. Thanks for the memories.

We really needed this when the California wildfires were massive a couple weeks ago.

I can't believe no one has said it yet so I'll do it: "Say 'ello to my little friend!" or Now that's my kind of super soaker.

my department was amazed when we saw that

The new FDNY Super Pumper, all contained on one Engine. needing 5 more to feed it, lol

It's more about the pump and the engine than the manufacturer. ANY major apparatus manufacturer could build a truck with these specs. It's all just what engine and pump that you spec. The rest is just the wrapper you put it in.

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Heck line up 3 of those trucks across the head of a canyon pumping like I described and you could cover 3000 feet of front, with support pumpers you could wet down a 1000 foot wide fire line and potential dump enough water mist into the fires air supply to chill it to death?

10000 with pressurized sources of water, or 5000 gallons per minute on its own, which is not too shabby itself, its not the superpumper from new york nor its huge accutraments but 5000 will reach and get water to a fire in and of it self very well.

Fantastic bit of kit assuming you have enough water supply.

Was this filmed at TEEX Brayton Fire Training Field in College Station

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SO How does the nozzle change format Ferrara fire apparatus?

I want a few like these just for our factory and oil refinery district in my city.

This plus a bunch of hose (a mile maybe) in place of the monitors with pond siphons would replace a whole fleet of rural tankers? Could it be built that cheaply?

Just wondering how the 600 HP engine is kept within working temperature while powering the pump at full capacity. Is there some sort of heat exchanger between the radiator and the pumped water supply?

I remember the days we had to run to the lake with buckets to put fires out.

A sweep of 1000 feet set it on a sweep of 180 degrees every 10 seconds that would dump 55 gallons of water on every degree of the arc each pass and in a minute that would be 300 gallons/ degree of water sprinkler wetting on a brush fire. How much would a pump skid with one of those deluge nozzles mounted on top cost? I think I know how some neighborhoods could stop the wild fires dead in CA. You would empty a couple of swimming pools in the few minutes it would run, but you would still have a bunch of houses, and the pools could be refilled.... Run it in a 360 in fog spray and embers would be suppressed well too.

Excellent

I can't help but think there would be a vegetation fire application for this (so Cal here). Amazing...did you ever consider that in the design of this?