Today's the Big Day!!!

From WVFD Fire Chief Phyllis (and if you don't have time during the day, join us tonight at 6pm or after at WVFD on Wolfskin Road to celebrate the arrival of the supertanker.

FF and Friends,

Yee-Haw!!!!   The WaterMaster super vacuum
pumper/tanker arrives in Wolfskin—after lunch today.
Richard O’Neal, one of the 3 owners of Southern Fire
Equipment is bringing it from Laurel MS, with a stop
in White Plains AL.  “The Liquidator” (Wayne came up
with that ) will be parked at my house this
afternoon—drop in!  I took a vacation day.

**Spectating, Truck Training, 6 PM.**  Lee Shearer
from the Athens Banner-Herald is coming to do a story
for Friday paper. Family members and Wolfskin
neighbors, y’all come check out the new razzle-dazzle
mobile water supply unit.  Let’s get some civilians in
the newspaper photo,  and maybe some gung-ho kids.

FYI: Check our www.southern-fire.com for info on the
truck and the company owners—all 3 are volunteer
firefighters, and developed the first truck and
low-level water strainer (fills from just 2 inches of
water source) for their own rural department. The idea
came from—not real exotic here— “Hey, lets modify and
outfit a septic tank sucking truck.” 

Also, type “watermaster truck” in Google.

In the FEMA Grant application, I wrote that this
vacuum tanker is perfect for our rural fire department
needs:  “Sucks, safe, simple; swift, solo, and
shallow.”

Here are some specs:  

2500 gal tank on Freightliner chassis (International
would have been my first choice, but the demo was a
Freightliner—and okay, it’s similar.)

Maximum water with minimum personne needed. Wittig 430
CFM vacuum system; fills tank in 2 ½ minutes from
static water (dry hydrant).  That thing sucks!!!
(Guaranteed to out perform conventional tankers 2 :1
in a  two hour water shuttle.  Video cameras so you
can sit in the cab, operate the “command center,” and
watch your back.

Will draft around 35 feet, vertical!  (I got 90 ft of
suction hose, w/ rapid Storz connections—should get us
to about any stream from parked a road in outlying
areas. 10 ft vertical draft is about what our
conventional trucks do easily.) 

1000 GPM Hale fire pump (Had that added, to make it
also a Pumper for firefighting. We need 2 Class A
Pumpers for ISO Class  8 rating)

No-rust aluminum tank.  Tank can be chloroxed and used
to haul potable water in event of disaster.  (Of
course storing the amount of chlorox needed for that
would make us a haz-mat site.)

2500 gal portable drop tank, stored on fold- down
carrier on side.

Wolf skull with red blinking lights in eye-sockets—Our
mascot for the dash!!! (Well okay, that was not
standard equipment, and it’s actually a big coyote
roadkill, but hey, it works in Wolfskin.)

See y’all tonight!  Peace in Wolfskin,

Phyllis