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They also bought a tanker pumper from Buckhall in Prince William County in 1990.
It was time, they felt, to purchase a new fire truck. Luveme is one of the oldest fire apparatus companies (since 1912) still in business, said Roger. They previously supplied companies in the west and central United States but recently branehed out toward the east coast.
They supply the Chicago fire companies with all their apparatus.
The WVFD already has the truck half paid for, having received $48,000 in hinds from the WVFD Ladies Auxiliary and funds set aside from their events, and donations, totaling $50,000.
In addition they received a matching grant from the Office of Emergency Medical Services, Virginia Department of Health for $34,301 to Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue for an ambulance. The company now has a $100,000 loan for the remainder due on both vehicles, Roger said.
Roger estimates the new truck should last them 25 years, normally trucks last about 15.
It is a marvel of engineering and will even make teaching new fire fighters easier, he said.
Most fire trucks have all white fire hoses, but this truck has hoses in eight different colors — purple, orange, yellow, black, blue, red, green and white. The hoses are coded to a flow gauge, an apparatus not on most fire trucks.
It eliminates guess work as to how many gallons of water they are pushing through a hose and tells exactly how much water has flowed. Before they “guest-imated.”
The color-coded hoses also
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