"We absolutely love the truck. It is perfect."

Chief Nathan Allen- Lead Fire Department  Lead, South Dakota

As bitterly cold weather looms, remember the capabilities of Colerain Twp. FD’s vacuum tanker:

The vacuum pump moves air, not water-no water in a regular fire pump to freeze up.  The truck carries 78 ft. of suction hose.

For alternative water sources just out of reach for regular firetrucks,s pumper/tanker 1912 can do the draft and dump set up to supply up to 450 GPM to the attack pumper. 

Charles Clark - Colerain Twp FD  Kingston, Ohio

"I've been trying to get this area to look at vacuum for years. It did well on the hill.  We like it".

Chief Jimmy Winters - Oak Hill VFD  NC

"We went mutual aid to a fire at a company that produces firewood. This company is called West End Firewood. They season and kiln dry the firewood. They had a massive fire that consumed hundreds of cordwood and a few buildings. There were approximately 22 tankers involved with a water shuttle. We found our own fill site and did approximately 65 loads. We estimated that we did more than 5 times more than any other tanker. The tanker worked better than we could ever imagine."

  Chief Michael Gauthier - Grafton Fire Department  Grafton, MA

“It still impressed me that I can draft through 84 ft of hard suction with 20ft of lift and still load 2600 gallons in around 3 minutes.”

Chief Droop Howell - Van Fire Department  Whitesville, WV

“"We have officially put into service a new 2020 Firovac 2,600-gallon tanker at the beginning of June. Many folks have probably already seen it out and about, as we have been getting personnel trained on driving and operations of the new tanker. It's a bit different and will be more versatile compared to the old tanker. We have many memories of our old tanker, 655 "Turtle", a 1982 Mack, it has served the community well. It has gone back to the Division of Forestry, and will likely serve another fire department. We are very excited to see how the new tanker will serve our community in the future. We are grateful for our community's support in order to provide the equipment and apparatus needed to serve.”

Western Holmes Co. Mutual Aid  Roland Phillips - Holmes County District 1

"I just got done meeting with a representative from Firovac on his way to deliver this 3000 gallon vac tanker, including a 1000 gpm pump, the same Company that made that massive pumper tanker for Grafton fire that was on display at FDIC.  I was impressed.  Filled 3000 gallons through over 70' of hard suction in 3 minutes and discharged that same 3000 gallon in a minute and a half. Peninsula Fire in Michigan is getting a solid truck."

"For those of us who have watched one of your 3000 gallon vacuum tankers, which also has a standard fire pump, compete against a tanker using the same old technology we now have, the vacuum tanker won the contest by a wide margin. The Vacuum tanker can load and unload water faster than what" (a non-vacuum) would "and for a lesser cost"...  " Your new vacuum tanker design makes it possible to draft from a greater height from streams or ponds that are some 28 feet below your tanker while a standard fire engine is limited to about 15 feet. This makes your Vacuum tanker a more useful apparatus especially on mutual calls. Since some of your Vacuum tanker users have found that they can carry 90 feet of 6 inch suction hose and can easily reach a water source that a standard tanker or fire engine can not get to or accomplish, this makes your vacuum tanker design all the more useful than the old technology tanker being considered. Tanker shuttle guidelines used by the ISO and NFPA point out that the time to load and unload a tanker is more important than high speed, especially on our rural roads."

Retired firefighter's observation

"We are in the middle of the woods supplying water at a wildfire. FIROVAC GETS IT DONE EVERY TIME. NO JOB TOO BIG NO JOB TOO SMALL. Loading wildfire units by Firovac."

"...With Firovac we can even supply an engine until a porta tank can be set up."

Melvin Killinger - Rose City MI VFD

Our department was called on a mutual aid.  The first response department was in the process of laying 1 mile of LDH to provide a water supply.  I instructed that I would  begin delivering water from a nearby static water source with our vacuum tanker until the other system was ready to go. After some time Incident Command broadcasted do not charge the line (LDH) as the fire was almost extinguished because the tanker was coming in with its 7th load. (Tanker capacity 3500 gallons). 

Since we purchased our vacuum tanker, the only time we use LDH is if we have to push water to a remote source like up a driveway. We can supply water more quickly and efficiently with the vacuum system.

Chief - Virginia Fire Department