Apart from the quality, engineering, superior design and innovations, what separates HME Fire Apparatus from the rest of the fire trucks in the world?
An HME Custom Pumper is the perfect showcase for the class, durability, and sustainability of stainless steel.
If your answer was stainless steel, you know your HME fire trucks inside and out. Today HME is the world’s largest single-source producer of custom, stainless steel fire apparatus – bar none.
There are standard and commercial solutions that can sometimes effectively fit the general requirements of a fire department. Then, there are custom build solutions, where a fire apparatus is specifically designed and equipped to meet individual demands and push the limits and capabilities of an apparatus to a whole new level.
One of a kind – Hudsonville Fire Department’s HME Mini-Pumper, aka the HME Rodent.
You can go a long way with a custom design, but how much can even the best custom-designers pack into one compact, custom mini-pumper style fire apparatus? After all, like it has been said many times before, you can’t have everything. If you want fast and quick, you’re going to have to leave something behind. Well, the Hudsonville Fire Department’s HME Rodent might possibly be one of those rare exceptions where you can have just about everything you wanted – in one small, quick and responsive mini-pumper fire apparatus. Read More…
Whether it’s scurrying down urban alleys, or running wide-open on twisting two-tracks, nobody can out-turn or out-manuever an HME Ahrens-Fox®. Ride along with us on our latest HME YouTube Channel installment as we put the pedal down to explore the limits of the HME Best-In-Industry Turn Radius on narrow city streets and alleyways. Our industry leading 52˚turning/cramp angle (with tires mounted!) delivers the best turning radius performance you’ll find anywhere in the fire apparatus manufacturing industry today.
