{"id":11932,"date":"2015-09-28T10:13:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:13:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11932"},"modified":"2015-09-28T10:13:37","modified_gmt":"2015-09-28T14:13:37","slug":"longwood-puts-new-pumper-into-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/?p=11932","title":{"rendered":"Longwood puts new pumper into service"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1188434\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Pumper-2015-300x200.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1188434\" class=\"wp-image-1188434 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Pumper-2015-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Pumper-2015\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1188434\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Longwood Fire Company&#8217;s new E-25-2 Pierce Arrow XT pumper truck. Image pumper courtesy of Glickfire.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 A new Pierce Arrow XT pumper truck was placed in service on Sept. 20 by Longwood Fire Company.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vehicle was funded 100 percent by the residents of Kennett Township, said Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cWe are extremely grateful for their continued support of our fire company.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The truck was purchased from Glick Fire Equipment.<\/p>\n<p>The process for replacing Longwood\u2019s 2001 Pierce Quantum rescue engine began in 2014 when the fire company\u2019s apparatus committee designed the pumper to coincide with another Longwood fire truck. \u201cWe did so to standardize our equipment and aid in operation and training,\u201d McCarthy said.<\/p>\n<p>The new vehicle has a six-man cab and features a 2,000 gallons per minute single-stage Waterous pump.<\/p>\n<p>Longwood Fire Company has served the communities of Kennett, East Marlborough, Pennsbury and Pocopson townships since 1921. Longwood Fire Company provides fire and rescue and emergency medical services 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For more information see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longwoodfireco.com\">www.longwoodfireco.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 A new Pierce Arrow XT pumper truck was placed in service on Sept. 20 by Longwood Fire Company. \u201cThe vehicle was funded 100 percent by the residents of Kennett Township, said Chief A. J. McCarthy. \u201cWe are extremely grateful for their continued support of our fire company.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp; Send article as PDF [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11931,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[708,6410],"class_list":["post-11932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-longwood-fire-company","tag-pumper-truck"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chescotimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}