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 Pleasant Hills Engine 232 is a 1998 Spartan/Saulsbury custom built heavy engine.  It was designed by an in-house truck committee lead by Rob Richardson.  It's pump capacity is 2000 gallons per minute (GPM).  It has a 620 gallon water tank and also has a 30 gallon foam tank that currently carries a Class A foam concentrate.  It carries 1500' of 5" supply line and is fully equipped with an arsenal of pre-connected hand lines and appliances.

 

 

(4) 2" pre-connected cross-lays
(2) 2 1/2" rear pre-connected hand lines
200' pre-connected Mack Attack*
300' 3 1/2" make up line
Front mounted pre-connected 1 3/4" trash line
200' pre-connected, 1000 GPM step gun
Pre-piped 2000 GPM roof mounted deck gun

Engine 232 was designed to be reasonably self-sufficient.  It has an onboard 6000 PSI, three bottle cascade system with a booster pump to refill SCBA air bottles on scene.  It also carries  12" and 16" explosion proof smoke ejectors and a 16" electric PPV.  Lighting is handled by a roof mounted, remotely operated light tower.  It also has portable generators with quartz lights for portable lighting requirements.  This engine has a full compliment of forcible entry tools including several hand tools and a Hurst  (Maverick) Combination Hydraulic Tool.

Engine 232 has been there every time it was needed by Pleasant Hills and surrounding communities doing what it was designed to do.  It proved quite capable at a large commercial structure fire at K-Mart in Pleasant Hills.  It was the first engine on scene and worked flawlessly for several hours non-stop at the major fire.  K-Mart was a 15 million dollar total loss, but five adjacent businesses were saved, in part, because Engine 232 was able to receive and distribute large volumes of water to mutual aid companies.

*Mack Attack - Developed by Rob Richardson for our company in the mid-seventies, it is a pre-connected 3 1/2" discharge with a gated "Y" attached to distribute several smaller hand lines long distances from the engine.  The large diameter discharge line stretches 200' reducing friction loss and allowing for better access and reach into commercial fires or to residential fires that sit back off of the roadway hundreds of feet.  Our Fire Chief then, "Tom Watts", named it a "Mack Attack" because it was developed by Rob whom we called "Big Mack" for his love of Mack CF pumper's.