Rescue51

San Diego County Fire Water Tender 7854

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Yesterday I was driving EB on the SR52 in Santee and saw the new San Diego County Fire WT7854 rolling westbound.  What a massive machine!  Beautiful water tender (with pump).  I was trying to do some research on this Ferrara rig and the only thing I am really seeing is references to Intermountain Fire.  Is this a Ramona rig?  I'm also wondering on the tank capacity (looks to me like it would start with 2,000 gal of water--plus, maybe 2500).   There are many compartments so I am wondering if they carry much of the structure gear a pumper does?  A funny reference to some photos in Facebook associated to Intermountain Fire & Rescue, to WT7854, says something about multiple crew seating in compartment: "It must be tough for the crew to enter the rear seating area through that roll-up door!"

 

~Rescue51

 

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WT 7854 is from San Pasqual.  Since San Pasqual is now run by the county, they were given the number of 84 for their station.  

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Thanks 'lkseng3'.  That is lots of water to carry.  I did not think that rig would carry more than 2500 gallons.  Impressive.  If from San Pasqual, wonder what it was doing in Santee.  Interesting. 

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