LITTLE BIG GUYS

By John M. Malecky                                                                 October, 2025

    In Ocean County the Eagleswood Fire Company of West Creek Township has in service Brush 5209. It is a 1998 Ford F-450 Super Duty 4 x 4 with a Knapheide /G & S body. It doubles as an EMS response unit to hard to get areas such as in the woods, to transport patients out to hard top roads where an ambulance would be waiting. It has a 250 gpm pump, 300 gallon UPF water tank. Other equipment includes forestry line, ¾ inch booster reel, two whip lines, hand tools, forestry tools, a portable pump, floating strainer, hose fittings, hard hats, fire shelters, a bolt cuter, Stihl saw, toolbox, first aid kit and a Stokes basket.

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