FIRE DEPARTMENT OF NEW YORK CITY New York City, New York
When FDNY needed a body that
could handle the rigors of New York City streets,
they came to Hackney to design a truck to move SCBA
bottles and medical oxygen to incidents throughout
all the boroughs. Hackney Manufactured four Mask Service
Units, each designed to transport up to 230 SCBA bottles.
There are four SCBA tube pods in the front tall compartments,
each with 40 tubes and two pods in the wheelhouse
compartments, each with 35 tubes. All SCBA bottles
are filled at the Mask station located at the fire
training academy, loaded into the individual pods
and staged for rapid loading into the trucks via forklift.
Located in the back compartment are four "H"
tanks of medical oxygen connected to a specially built
oxygen cascade system for refilling "D"
and "E" size cylinders at stations. The
oxygen tanks are loaded and uploaded via an electro-hydraulic
tailgate located just inside the rear roll-up door.
Due to the constant heavy loads on the truck, an air
suspension was installed on the rear axle to absorb
the shock associated with the city streets. Hackney
is well suited for this type of operation, since each
body built by Hackney comes standard with the ability
to handle up to 2500 lbs. of direct load on each individual
compartment floor, far stronger than any other fire
apparatus body available. All Hackney's are built
to take it.
