New Crossland Water Tanker for Northern Ireland Rescue Service

Northern Ireland Rescue Service has recently taken delivery of its second Crossland Water Tanker which has been introduced to manage new requirements and regulations.

The Northern Ireland Rescue Service chose a Crossland Water Tanker

The new Water Tanker is the second Crossland Tanker that the Northern Ireland Fire Service has taken delivery of in just under a year.
Neil Coyle, Transport Officer for Northern Ireland Rescue Service comments: “ We are extremely pleased with our new water tanker, we decided to use Crossland again because of the high standard in workmanship and excellent back-up and service”.

Northern Ireland Fire Authority’s water carrier is built on a Volvo FM9 chassis 6x2 rear steer, with 10,500 litre capacity.
The Crossland Water Tanker has the ability to collect water from open water sources or any kind of hydrants. Once collected, the water can either be fed direct into the main fire tender or can be deposited in a portable dam allowing the carrier to go and refill. The water tanker can collect up to 10,500 litres in around four minutes and offload in a similar time scale.

The new tanker has been built to high specification to meet the increasing demands of the Fire Service, with a light portable pump, Woodway control panel for emergency lighting, a high pressure hose reel, and stand alone floating pump.