New Equipment
On 26 March 2007, fire crews across Surrey took delivery of 12 Scanias, amongst the UK's most advanced fire appliances. The vehicles seat eight firefighters instead of six, and each has a "tough book" computer system that contains every address in the county.
They also have a compressed air foam system or "CAFS" as it is known. This produces class 'A' foam through a hosereel or standard layflat hose. The class 'A' foam can be used to coat buildings and cars to continue absorbing heat after standard water would have run off. The system is useful for defensive firefighting operations but is unpopular with crews because the installation of a CAFS hosereel replaces one of the standard water hosereels used for offensive firefighting operations. Therefore a CAFS appliance carries only 60 m of hosereel compared to 120 m on the older appliances.
The fire service has also received money to buy a new rescue boat which will be based at Walton-on-Thames and used during flooding incidents.
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