Our Equipment
In 1976 the town purchased a Seagrave 100' Aerial Ladder Truck to replace a used 1944 American La France. This ladder truck served the entire town, housed and manned by Newtown Hook & Ladder. The Ladder Truck was refurbished in 1991 by Pierce extending its life by several years.
In 1978 the department members saw the need to expand and a Mini-Pumper (400 gpm, 250 gallons water) was purchased by the fire department from Pierce on a Chevy one-ton chassis.
In 1979 a Seagrave Supply Pumper (1000 gpm, 1000 gallons water) was placed in service to replace the recently disbanded Headquarters Company. This apparatus was re-furbished in 1995 by Pierce and its useful life was extended by many years.
In 1981 a Pierce Dash Pumper (1000 gpm, 1000 gallons water) was placed in service to replace a 1968 Maxim Pumper. This apparatus was outfitted as an attack pumper, equipped with a foam system and 100 gallon foam tank and pre-piped deck gun.
In 1982 a Pierce Rescue Truck was purchased by the fire department. This truck, built on a HD Ford chassis was placed in service as a dedicated rescue truck, relieving these duties from our Mini-Pumper and greatly expanding our rescue capabilities. This apparatus is presently designated to be replaced.
Hook & Ladder has recently placed in service a Pierce Attack Pumper (500 gpm, 400 gallons water) built on a short wheel base 4X4 International chassis. This apparatus sees multiple duties as our choice of responding for MVAs, car fires, brush fires, medicals, investigations, general utility as well as a being well outfitted for structural fires.
We currently operate a 2001 Pierce Ladder Truck (105' power ladder). This apparatus is a dedicated ladder truck carrying no water or fire pump. Hook & Ladder took great efforts to make it extremely maneuverable and carry more ground ladders than required.
Over the years, Newtown Hook & Ladder has been a progressive firefighting company. To meet the changing times in the fire service and the Town of Newtown, the department adopted the plectron home alerting system in 1956, one of the earliest in Connecticut to adopt this system. In 1974 the company purchased its first Hurst Tool. In 1978 saw the purchase of 5" large diameter hose (LDH) in preparation for the supply pumper delivered in 1979. Newtown Hook & Ladder purchased its first Thermal Imaging Camera in the spring of 1998, we now operate with three cameras. |
