The Pittsburgh Press from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania · Page 126

f.ui . mnaji hi p"HV !"V .tfA J. .-jWl!U .'!?. owerru I e Little Squirt TURRET NOZZLE. The Scully is equipped with three of these powerful "water guns" which shoot 1500 gallons 100 feet a minute at 90 pounds pressure. "Gunner" is James Hammond. r i ON THE READY. Fire captain and pilot. Joe Letson, talks by radio with headquarters. nmw4 I 6 5 r -7 v TP PUMP ROOM. Bernard Kestner turns on the main valve supplying the pumps with water. By William Faust . Prt Staff Writer PITTSBURGH'S new fire boat the C. D. Scully Is bigger than it looks. In action, the powerful little squirt, only 62 feet long and 18 feet wide, can pump water equal to the volume of 10 fire trucks, each with a capacity of 1000 gallons a minute. Even 1000 gallons of water a minute is a lot of water, but 10,000 gallons of water is more than enough to fill the average home swimming pool with plenty left over. The value of the Scully, however, is mainly its ability to deliver vast quantities of river water in the shortest possible time to fires within hose distance of the rivers. That includes most of the Golden Triangle. In its short history, the powerful little squirt has been at NEWLY EQUIPPED. Everything on the boat is new, and Philip Hildenbrand and Ea Lee demonstrate a fog nozzle. The Pittsburgh Presi, Sunday, June 2, 1957 three fires. The largest was the $150,000 fire on First Avenue, and it was the powerful pumping action of the Scully which prevented the fire from spreading to adjoining buildings. The $100,000 shallow draft boat was designed by Leo A. Gill, director of the city's Department of Automotive Equipment. He spent months on its design and examined fire boats owned by other cities. The specifications he turned over to Paasch Marine Service, boat builders of Erie, included four 2500-gallon pumps to supply water for three stationary nozzles, plus eight deck hose lines. Power for the craft is supplied by four 300 horsepower diesel engines. And its twin screws can propell the