Pierce has sold wildland firefighting trucks to the Bureau of Land Managementthrough its National Fire Equipment Program (NFEP). An initial fleet of 19 pumpers was delivered last month to BLM units in Idaho, Utah, Oregon and Nevada. A second, recently placed order of 13 pumpers will be delivered in early 2011. The vehicles will be used for both mobile attack firefighting, as well as structure protection in urban interface situations.

The Pierce wildland all-wheel drive pumpers are built to BLM 667 and 667M specifications and are designed as initial attack engines that can reach fires in rough terrain before they threaten homes and lives. Each is built on a durable four-wheel drive chassis with maximum approach and departure angles and underbody clearance. Each features a 750- or 850-gallon water tank and a 20-gallon foam tank. The vehicles offer an auxiliary pump and foam system with true pump-and-roll capability to attack fast-moving wildland fires.