Van pump-ton

The van pump-ton (FPT) , also called ton-pump or fire-engine is a Fourgon of fire. With the Brigade of firemen of Paris, it is called first aid thunders (PST) .

It carries with him a Pompe of a Débit of: 1000 with more: 3000 l/min driven by the engine of the machine and a cistern (the ton ) of: 1500 with: 6000 liters of water to attack the fire as of its arrival on the spot.

In its cabin, which can accommodate up to eight Sapeurs-pompiers, are fastened on the seats the insulating breathing apparatuses (ARI), ready to be endorsed during the way.

In its trunks an important batch of material is arranged; mainly material of Fire control (lances, pipes, Connection S and division S, emulsifier) and of the material of rescue.

With the back, one finds sometimes two reels mobile armed each of 200 m of pipes. The FPT is the principal truck used for the fire control. It can only operate on fires of certain importance since it can put out of battery and supply three large lances to 200 m of a water point.

There exists in smaller France of the versions of the FPT, called light vans pump-ton (FPTL) or sometimes first-help (PS) . A FPTL transports six people. There exists also an alternative except way of the FPT. It is acted in fact of a FPT assembled on a frame raised with a transmission 4×4. This type of véicule can thus take escarpées roads. It is called the FPTHR (van pumps ton except road).

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