1965 Mack F-715FS FDNY Super Pumper System Tender

1965 Mack F-715FS in 福氣又安康 (Easy Fortune Happy Life), TV Series, 2009 Ep. 11+

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1965 Mack F-715FS FDNY Super Pumper System Tender

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Andyhao ◊ 2026-07-13 05:42	EP 12
San ◊ 2026-07-13 06:40	Code 3 FDNY Super Pumper System Mack Super Tender (12541) firewiki wrote 1965 Mack F (8800/-) (Ex-Super Pumper) Stan F wrote Retired 1982 bangshift wrote From 1965 through the early 1980s, the Mack Super Pumper System responded to more than 2,200 calls with more than 900 firefighters serving to operate it in some capacity. The five trucks that made up the super pumper system were a massive, locomotive-engined central pumping truck, a tender truck full of hoses, manifolds, and other gear, and three satellite trucks that looked like standard fire engines but were not equipped with their own pumps. It cost the city of New York $875,000 when it was new and we’ll wager to say that it was probably the best money ever spent to keep Gotham safe. There’s never been anything else like it. At 8,800 GPM it was throwing nearly 70,000lbs of water on a fire per minute. During a fire in the Bronx, firemen laid 7,000ft of hose to get to a suitable water supply and the truck pumped as though it was dipping its feet into the ocean. In 1967 the Super Pumper responded to a fire at a postal annex in NYC and managed to supply water to the massive gun on the tender truck, its three satellite units, two tower ladder trucks, and a portable manifold with multiple hand lines all by itself. The hoses on the truck were pressure tested to 1,000psi of pressure but typically operated anywhere in the 350-800psi range depending on the situation. This is way higher (by several times!) what modern trucks use by our understanding. The hoses were a derivative of hoses developed by the Navy in WWII for high pressure applications and while incredibly heavy when compared to modern hoses, they were cutting edge at the time. The truck still exists, living at a museum in Michigan and standing as a great reminder that human beings are amazingly inventive and creative beings when forced to find solutions to problems that endanger lots of lives or lots of valuable property!
Exiv96 ◊ 2026-07-13 06:46	https://www.hemmings.com/stories/the-ultimate-weapon/ https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8uYLu9vVDYk/maxresdefault.jpg -- Last edit: 2026-07-13 06:51:13

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Andyhao

◊ 2026-07-13 05:42

EP 12

San

◊ 2026-07-13 06:40

Code 3 FDNY Super Pumper System Mack Super Tender (12541)

firewiki wrote
1965 Mack F (8800/-) (Ex-Super Pumper)

Stan F wrote
Retired 1982

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bangshift wrote
From 1965 through the early 1980s, the Mack Super Pumper System responded to more than 2,200 calls with more than 900 firefighters serving to operate it in some capacity. The five trucks that made up the super pumper system were a massive, locomotive-engined central pumping truck, a tender truck full of hoses, manifolds, and other gear, and three satellite trucks that looked like standard fire engines but were not equipped with their own pumps. It cost the city of New York $875,000 when it was new and we’ll wager to say that it was probably the best money ever spent to keep Gotham safe. There’s never been anything else like it.

At 8,800 GPM it was throwing nearly 70,000lbs of water on a fire per minute.

During a fire in the Bronx, firemen laid 7,000ft of hose to get to a suitable water supply and the truck pumped as though it was dipping its feet into the ocean.

In 1967 the Super Pumper responded to a fire at a postal annex in NYC and managed to supply water to the massive gun on the tender truck, its three satellite units, two tower ladder trucks, and a portable manifold with multiple hand lines all by itself.

The hoses on the truck were pressure tested to 1,000psi of pressure but typically operated anywhere in the 350-800psi range depending on the situation. This is way higher (by several times!) what modern trucks use by our understanding. The hoses were a derivative of hoses developed by the Navy in WWII for high pressure applications and while incredibly heavy when compared to modern hoses, they were cutting edge at the time.

The truck still exists, living at a museum in Michigan and standing as a great reminder that human beings are amazingly inventive and creative beings when forced to find solutions to problems that endanger lots of lives or lots of valuable property!

Exiv96

◊ 2026-07-13 06:46

https://www.hemmings.com/stories/the-ultimate-weapon/

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8uYLu9vVDYk/maxresdefault.jpg

-- Last edit: 2026-07-13 06:51:13

1965 Mack F-715FS FDNY Super Pumper System Tender

1965 Mack F-715FS in 福氣又安康 (Easy Fortune Happy Life), TV Series, 2009 Ep. 11+

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