Apparatus

Four rigs. All of them earn their keep.

There are no hydrants outside the village, so the water rides with us: an engine, a tanker, a brush truck and a rescue, four rigs for 61 square miles.

A red tanker-pumper parked on the grass beneath bare trees in late autumn.

Engine 1

Engine · 2016

Commercial-chassis pumper

1,500 gpm pump, 1,000-gallon tank, 1,200 feet of supply hose.

First out on structure fires, alarms and most everything else.

Tanker 2

Tanker · 2009

Tandem-axle tanker

3,000-gallon tank, 1,000 gpm pump, 2,500-gallon portable pond.

Water supply. There are no hydrants outside the village, so the water rides with us.

Brush 3

Brush truck · 2019

Four-wheel-drive pickup with a skid unit

300-gallon tank, 150 gpm pump, hand tools and backpack pumps.

Grass, brush and leaf fires off the pavement, and the first look at anything up a lane.

Rescue 4

Rescue · 2012

Light rescue on a cab-and-chassis

Hydraulic cutter and spreader, cribbing, scene lights, a generator and the medical bag.

Crashes on Cedar Hollow Road and Ridge Road, and anything that needs tools and light.