Portal de Cartagena
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The mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, accompanied by the Councillor for Public Safety, Mariano Garcia, the Director General of Security, Carlos Nieto, and the Chief of Municipal Fire Fighting and Rescue, Francisco Gomez intervals, this morning media to the new scale car that has given the fire department.
According to the mayor highlighted the main virtue of this vehicle are that can reach 37 meters, equivalent to the tenth floor, the maximum height provided for in the General Urban Plan 1987.
This will be accessible to almost all the buildings in Cartagena.
Scale the previous car, which will continue in service alongside the new, only the eighth floor reached up to 30 meters and has an antiquity of 20 years.
In addition, the vehicle incorporates a series of technological advances allowing for faster and more accurate deployment, facilitating not only help the victims and their evacuation, but also the extinction of fires more effectively.
These include the electronic traction control and stability.
Approach also incorporates sensors in the basket and video camera to view from below the approach to the front or the evolution of the fire, which is especially interesting when using the remote controlled water cannon from below.
The car has cost scale 780,000 euros has been funded by contributions from insurance companies, in respect of the special contribution of the installation and upgrading of fire services have been given in recent years.
To purchase the City Council held a competition at European level which was won by the trading company ITURRI.
The truck was delivered last August and since then is being adapted and practices, their management requires a process of gaining experience training before use in claims.
Recently, training has been provided by the collective staff ITURRI Fire.
Another important detail is that the new truck is not larger than the current, if anything is slightly more compact, although it is slightly larger steps.
This is achieved because the ladder is made up of five sections, while the former was made up of four sections and the basket is built on the stages.
Also the car is somewhat lower.
This allows better access to narrow areas of the city.
It is also much more stable than the previous steps, because a system that automatically and in real time is correcting the movements and oscillations that due to the wind and approach movements ordered by the firefighter was suffering from the basket.
The legs may be operated independently of the vehicle, even in height during their deployment, to be located as low or even on a road under a railing or dodge
The vehicle has a browser that allows to know from the bottom position and to monitor progress on digital mapping.
THE VEHICLE STIC CARACTERE
Auto-Autoescalera 37 meters, of the firm IVECO - chassis is MAGIRUS.-FIRE-FIGHTING IVECO Model FF-160 E30. The cabin is simple, for 1 driver and 2 bomberos.-diesel engine has six cylinders and 300-horsepower Eurotronic The change is automatic 6-speed.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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