Barrow County Emergency Services held a Push-In ceremony at Fire Station 5 on Monday for its new 78' quintuple combination pumper.
The truck is equipped with an aerial ladder that can be used to access multi-story buildings for rescue or for a direct elevated stream of water into fires, according to a press release from Barrow County Emergency Services.
The truck has five functions, including a 1500 gallons per minute pump, a 500-gallon water tank, fire hose, a 78' aerial device and various ground ladders.
It will go into service at Station 5 off of Highway 211 in the northwest end of Barrow County. The truck will replace Engine 5, which will be relocated to Station 3 in Bethlehem.
The Push-In ceremony is a fire service tradition that allows fire crews to push the truck into the bay for the first time to place it into service.
Until the addition of the new truck at Station 5, calls requiring an aerial apparatus in the Braselton, Hoschton and Auburn areas were covered by a truck stationed near Highway 316 and Carl Bethlehem Road.
The truck, also called Quint 5, was built by E-One in Ocala, FL, and will have a service life of about 10 years according to the release.
