fair enuf, id like to see a pumper at coro as well instead of our cfs standard 24 (as we cover a few high risks as well, schools, craigburn etc.) but its just not practical.. we cant purely decide what appliances we want, by there abilities to supply MFS appliances with water.
you stated somewhere in another post as one of your arguments for a pumper (i understand that it isnt the only one!!!) that you required a type 2 pumper, not a 24P, because you have had to supply the MFS bronto with water two times in the last year. this is not a justified reason, supplying water to an MFS truck is an MFS job, we need trucks to protect our own area not MFS area.
sure a 24P or 34P with a powerful PTO pump would be great though.. no arguments there, and i acknowledge that we need trucks capable of shifting a lot of water quickly for assets such as the hospital and nursing homes, but we also need 4WDs, your brigade for instance is the first response into belair national park, and if we cant get enough trucks in there quickly from our end on a bad day, then we might as well just be calling upper sturt or stirling and tell them to catch it as it burns out he other side.
the type 2s entry/exit angles are to low, this isnt only going to affect off road capabilities, but think about some roads in belair/eden hills/coromandel valley area (extremely windy, tight and steep), i dont think trucks with such low clearances would make it down and around many of our suburbs.
