Motorized Apparatus Used in Forest Fires Publication: Automotive Daily News Dateline: Rapid City, South Dakota Date: 27 August 1925 Subject: Public Service Vehicles

Rapid City, S. D., Aug. 26.—Motorized fire-fighting equipment has revolutionized methods of fighting forest fires, especially in the Black Hills, National Forest, which boasts a splendid highway system.

The latest piece of fire-fighting equipment at the local station is mounted on a heavy truck chassis, so that it can be rushed at once to any part of the district. The pump is demountable and is so constructed that it only weighs 105 pounds and can be carried, where needed, by two men.

The engine will pump a stream 300 to 400 feet up the side of a canyon. Two thousand feet of specially constructed light hose is carried.