Shasta
County, California provides a regional haz-mat response
team for Northern California. Due to the huge geographical
response area Shasta chose Hackney to design a large
capacity response vehicle that was capable of supporting
all haz-mat response evolutions from a single vehicle.
Roy Cobb, Western Regional Sales Manager for Hackney
worked in conjunction with Placer Fire Equipment sat
down in the early design phase of the project and
developed a concept that not only met the mission
that had been envisioned, but also stayed within the
designated budget.
The Hackney CRC0882R body was custom designed and
mounted on a Spartan 4-door MFD cab with a 10"
raised roof that provides a comfortable environment
for the team enroute. The body is over 23-ft long
with eight exterior storage compartments, a 23-ft
long recessed roof storage area and rear command/resource
center. The rear command/resource center is climate
controlled and features a stainless steel desk and
work station and laboratory grade vent hood. The stainless
steel work station allows haz-cat operations and facilitates
simple cleaning and decontamination. All interior
storage cabinets are aluminum.
Electrically deployed awnings
are installed on the left and right sides providing
additional staging and work zones. Power for the environmental
systems is provided by a 25-kw Onan PTO generator
mounted inside the left front compartment to protect
the system from corrosive road spray. Other equipment
powered by the generator include: Will-Burt NightScan
multi-directional light tower with six 900-watt MagnaFire
flood lights; 900-watt MagnaFire floods on the upper
left and right side of the body; two tripod flood
lights on the rear body and a 900-watt MagnaFire brow-mounted
flood light on the front of the body. Two (2) 240VAC
cord reels are provided that splits the power distribution
box at the end of the cord into two separate full
30-amp circuits with two twist-lock outlets on each
circuit.