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Hale midship pump panel (Ferrara Fire Apparatus) Hale Products Incorporated is a unit of IDEX Corporation. [1] Like its parent, IDEX, Hale manufactures hydraulic equipment. However, this equipment is designed almost exclusively for the fire and rescue field.
Hale sells fire-trucks, portable pumps, ventilation systems, and the Hurst "Jaws of Life". [5] In January 1998, IDEX agreed to buy Gast Manufacturing of Benton Harbor, Michigan, for $118 million. Gast manufactures compressors, vacuum pumps, air motors and other products. [6] In 2011, IDEX Corporation acquired The Fitzpatrick Company. [7]
The Gramm/Ahrens-Fox fire engines had Hercules motors and either Northern or Hale fire pumps, while the Gramm/Bickles used Seagrave motors and pumps. Bickle also made fire engines on Seagrave's own chassis, and on various other commercial truck chassis, at the same time that they were making Gramm/Bickles.
By 1938 large numbers of the Coventry trailer pumps were being purchased by fire brigades, and demonstrated to ARP staff and members of the Auxiliary Fire Service. The "Coventry Climax trailer pump" was described as being capable of delivering 250–300 imperial gallons per minute (1,100–1,400 L/min).
Sutphen produces all types of fire related vehicles on their own chassis including the usual engines, ladders, and rescues but also provides bodies for commercial chassis applications. The company produces mid-mount aerials as either a tower ladder platform (with a bucket/basket) or in a ladder tower form (no bucket) plus industrial application ...
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Oct. 1—A state agency is exploring ways to expedite replacement of Maui low-income rental housing to offset losses from the deadly Aug. 8 Lahaina wildfire. A state agency is exploring ways to ...
The fire pump was reinvented in Europe during the 16th century, reportedly used in Augsburg in 1518 and Nuremberg in 1657. A book of 1655 inventions mentions a steam engine (called a fire engine) pump used to "raise a column of water 40 feet [12.2 m]", but there was no mention of whether it was portable.