The city of Reading and the Reading Fire Department ordered five new apparatus from Pierce Manufacturing, Glick Fire Equipment Company said Wednesday, Oct. 25 in a Facebook post.
The order includes three Pierce Enforcer pumpers, an Enforcer Ascendant 102-foot tiller, and a Pierce/Freightliner Wildland unit.
The pumpers and tiller feature TAK-4 IFS, with TAK-4 on the tiller trailer, Cummins X10 and X15 powerplants, respectively, FireTech HiViz scene lighting and Whelen emergency lights.
The Wildland unit features a Freightliner M2-106 4×4 Chassis, Pierce’s BX3 Stainless Steel Wildland body, 500-gallon water tank, Darley 1,000-gpm PTO pump with auxiliary pump for Pump-and-Roll.
To begin a fleet replacement program, these units were purchased using the Pierce Financial Solutions Turn-In Leasing program.