Published December 18. 2020 06:48AM
At approximately 11 a.m. Dec. 12, Eastern Salisbury Fire Department’s new Rescue 20-41 arrived at the fire station on Emmaus Avenue and Honeysuckle Road.
Over the next few weeks members will be hard at work getting the truck ready for service, becoming familiar with it and training on it.
The truck was built by 4 Guys Fire Trucks on a 2020 Spartan custom cab chassis. Its primary function will be to serve as a rescue truck with a compliment of Hurst eDraulic Tools, Res-Q-Jack Struts, Paratech Airbags and more.
The truck’s secondary function will be as an engine with a 1500 GPM Hale pump, 1,000 gallons of water and full fire suppression equipment.
This new apparatus will replace the 2009 MW Rescue and 1999 Smeal Engine.
The fire department thanked everyone involved with helping to make this truck come to reality, including Salisbury Township, Salisbury Township Board of Commissioners, Salisbury Township Director of Fire Services, Salisbury Township Volunteer Fireman’s Relief Association, Western Salisbury Volunteer Fire Company, MESFire and J. Sileski, ESFD truck committee and members, 4 Guys Fire Trucks, Bob Pursel with Commonwealth Fire Equipment and the residents of Salisbury Township.
Over the coming days ESFD will post about a different portion of the truck each day. ESFD would like to thank everyone again for their support. An open house for the new truck will be held next year when feasible.
PRESS PHOTO BY SARAH TAKACS On Dec. 12, members of Eastern and Western Salisbury fire departments convoy down Interstate 78 to escort the new Rescue 20-41 home to its station on Emmaus Avenue and Honeysuckle Road.
The rear of the Rescue 20-41 states it is the “Beast of the East.”
Members of Eastern and Western Salisbury fire departments push the new truck into her bay at the station Dec. 12.
Dennis Takacs Jr. shows the new Rescue 20-41 to the Salisbury Township commissioners and educates them on just some of the equipment already placed on the truck. PRESS PHOTOS BY SARAH TAKACS
