Helping Our Neighbors in Emergencies

Washington Volunteer Fire and Rescue

Current Equipment

Equipment:

Besides a utility vehicle (a Ford 350, bought in 2007), we currently have:

· A 2000 Attack vehicle

The Attack is basically a small pumper with a 350 gallon-water tank, CAFS equipped (which makes the water capacity equivalent to 1000 gallons). The Attack is designed for smaller fires, for small driveways and for speed. It is also used in brushfire situations.

· A 1976 Brush Truck

A legend in the County, the Brush Truck goes just about anywhere. It hauls a lot of outdoor firefighting equipment (leaf blowers, shovels, rakes, chainsaws etc) as well as small gauge hose for small fires.

· A Dump Tank

 

· Two Ambulances: one purchased new in 2006, the other in 1997.

· In the Spring of 2008 we applied for a grant from The Jesse and Rose Loeb Foundation in Warrenton, VA to either replace the chassis on the 1997 Ambulance  - or to buy a new ambulance (our preferred option).  The Loeb Foundation awarded us a grant in the summer of 2008 to replace our oldest ambulance. We will be bidding the contract for our new ambulance in the early fall of 2008

◄ Medic 1-1 under construction. Our ambulances are built to our specifications that we might provide the best patient care during long hospital transports out of Rappahannock County.

· Our wagon (also called pumper) is the primary vehicle used to respond to fires. Equipped with CAFS (Compressed Air Foam System), which makes the wagon 1,000 gallon water capacity equivalent to 3,000 gallons, the wagon

· 3 or 4 hoses all pressurized, pumps

· Carries hoses and equipment & pumps it

· A 2008 KME tanker arrived in November 2008! Please help out with our  fund raiser project: the total cost of the new tanker is close to half a million dollars!

· Click here for more details on our new tanker.