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Letter From John Maurer, Hustead Fire Department

Monday, February 15, 2010 8:17am


Hi Mike, Dirk, Harry and everyone at Alexis:

I just wanted to drop you a note to tell you that our new tanker worked flawlessly on a house fire Sunday morning.

As you can see from the pictures, we had a larger volume of fire. When we got to the fire our lead engine would not go in pump gear so we had every hand line off the new truck pulse a 5" supply line to a ladder truck. We had 2-5" supply lines coming into the tanker and we moved 50,000 gallons of water and never ran out. At the peak of the fire, we were flowing 1,500 GPM and had 9 tankers moving water from the closest hydrant 4 miles away.

Thanks again for building us such a great truck.

Thank you,
John Maurer and all of us from Hustead Fire Dept.