Truck 232  
    

Pleasant Hills has been a Truck Company since 1967 when we purchased our first aerial truck, an American LaFrance 70' Elevated Platform to protect one of two high rise apartment buildings that were planned for Pleasant Hills.  Pleasant Hills Apartments on East Bruceton Road soon followed the purchase of the truck.  Not too many years later, SouthPointe Towers on Cerasi Drive was built. In the early eighties, we retrofitted a 90' elevated platform and some bigger outriggers onto the aging truck so we could reach more of the apartment balconies.  But by the late eighties we realized that we needed a different approach to Truck Company Operations. 


Click on 232 Truck for view of compartments

In 1989, we began planning and design talks for our new Truck.  Truck 232 is a 1991 Spartan/Grumman 102' Ladder and Platform.  It was the last  Grumman Aerial Cat to roll of the assembly line.  The platform has two mounted deck guns for applying huge volumes of water.  One gun is set up for remote operation with an adjustable stream combination nozzle and the other gun has stack tips for varying reach and volume requirements.  The in-house truck committee sacrificed a pump for massive amounts of compartment space utilized for "truck work" equipment. 

It carries (2) chain saws, an XL98 all purpose gas powered saw, electric circular saw, (2) gas powered PPV's, (2) 20" explosion proof electric fans, Hydra-Ram, confined space stokes, rope rescue equipment, a full compliment of ladders, pike poles, water vacs, irons, electric cord reels and lighting, 800' of 5" supply line, a pre-connected 1 3/4" protection line in the platform, and (2) on-board air cascade bottles piped to the platform. 

Truck 2 was primarily purchased to protect the two 8 story high-rise apartment buildings in Pleasant Hills but has performed well at many in and out of town structure fires and technical rescues as well.