1965-1982 FDNY Super Pumper System 1:64th Scale Diecast Mack Fire Truck Set by Code 3 Collectibles
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News Flash: Major brush fire on Staten Island

Date Line April 20, 1963

The New York Fire Department responds to a brush fire on Staten Island. A Small brush fire broke out on Staten Island. Several dry spells combined with prolonged water shortages have plagued the mainly thick brush, oak and pine tree covered Island with residential homes built in clusters.

The fire began as a series of small brush fires and quickly grew into larger and larger fires. All of Staten Island's fire companies were soon involved. They called for help. Additional fire companies were dispatched from Brooklyn and Manhattan.

Response was hampered because firefighters and their equip. from the mainland had to be shipped by ferry to Staten Island. By the time the fire was out more than 80 fire companies and more than 1,300 firefighters had been engaged.

The Staten Island fire was a major disaster.

A year after the Staten Island fire in 1963, William Francis Gibbs, presented a conceptual plan for the Super Pumper System to the FDNY (Fire Department City of New York), with a reasonable price tag of $875,000 dollars.

The system consisted of five trucks. A Super Pumper, A Super Tender, and Three Satellite Tenders.

The Mack F715ST Super Pumper consisted of a tractor trailer unit coupled together. The tractor engine was a 255 hp Mack END864 diesel engine teamed with an Allison CLT 4460 semi-automatic transmission. To say the least this truck had plenty of power.

What could be more powerful than the power plant in the tractor? That would be the power plant in the trailer. Weighing in at a mere 13,000 lbs., the engine was a Napier-Deltic engine rated at 2400 HP at 1,800 RPM. With 18 Cylinders, the 2 stroke turbo blown diesel engine gulped fuel at 140 gallons per hour when operating at maximum horsepower.

The Super Tender had a Mack tractor similar to the Super Pumper.

Mounted on the tender there was a 10,000 gallon per minute water cannon.

Unlike the Super Pumper, which was coupled to the tractor permanently, the Super Tender had a fifth wheel connection to its tractor and could be disconnected.

The trailer was divided into two main sections. The forward section was compartmented to carry firefighting equipment. The rear compartment carried 2,000 feet of 4 and a 1/2 inch hose in a conventional flat hose bed compartment.

Under the hose bed compartment there were 4 and a 1/2 inch manifolds which went through various check valves and an air operated pressure reducing valve to siamese connection on the side of the trailer to enable low pressure hose use of 100 lbs. pressure.

The water cannon had a range of tips from 3” to 5”, and a 2000 gallon per minute fog tip. The tender carried 2,000 ft of 4 and a 1/2 inch hose in 50 foot lengths. All together the Super Pumper System carried 8,000 feet of 4 and a 1/2 inch hose flat hose.

To complete the Super Pumper system there were 3 satellite units.

The first satellites were similar to 1958 Mack C pumpers but had no pumps. Each of the 3 satellite units carried 2,000' of 4 and a 1/2 inch hose. They were equipped 4,000 gallon per minute water cannons. The tips used on the water cannons ranged between 2” to 4” and 2 fog tips rated at 700 gallons per minute and 2,000 gallons per minute.

Just how awesome was the super pumper system? In 1967, it responded to a fire at a postal annex and managed to supply water to the massive gun on the tender, all three of its three satellite tenders, two tower ladder trucks, and a portable manifold with multiple hand lines all by itself.

That is an awesome amount of water.

From 1965 to 1982 a span of 17 years, the Super Pumper responded to 2,200 fire calls. The system was retired in 1982.

Talk about impressive. I would have loved to see the FDNY Super Pumper System in Action. How about you?

I know Code 3 is out of business and these sets are really hard to find today, but I’ve got 1 Set of this amazing 1:64th scale fire truck set available on a special site and it will only be up till it is sold. Get your set today with the link in the description below. Once it’s sold the link will disappear!

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