A Special Feature
CAPE
COD BRUSH BREAKERS
"A pictorial history of the unique
forest firefighting apparatus"
By Britton Crosby
First Posted January 2001 - Re-released April 2014
(Updated April 2014)
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Early
Cape Cod Brush Breakers & Forestry Apparatus
1930s - 1940s
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Some departments built engines that could also serve as
tankers and be able to
battle grass and brush fires. Maxim
built this large pumper for Falmouth in 1938.
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Falmouth Engine 5 had a 500 gpm pump and 1000 gallon tank.
It was assigned to East Falmouth from 1938 to 1963
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Falmouth Engine 5 was mostly water tank. Upon
retirement from Falmouth it served
another 7 years as Mashpee's Engine 5.
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Bourne Engine 7, Breaker 127 was a former military 1944 Chevy
chassis.
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Bourne Breaker 127 1944 Chevy.
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Bourne Breaker 7, (127) served into the 1970s.
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1949 former military truck converted to brush breaker in Bourne.
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Bourne Breaker 8 a 1949 Ford brush breaker and the 1940s breaker 9
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1949 Ford Brush Breaker 8 in Bourne
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Bourne Engine 11 was built on a 1940s military Scout Car. |
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Falmouth Fire Department operated this military scout car as a brush truck.
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The Town of Barnstable Forest Fire Department had several
vehicles.
This brush breaker was built on a 1947 Dodge Power Wagon chassis.
It served in Cotuit as Breaker 217 until 1969.
It later saw duty in Hyannis and finally in West Barnstable.
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The Town of Barnstable breaker 217 at Cotuit.
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The brush breaker is on the left in front of the Cotuit fire
station.
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Centerville-Osterville built this truck in 1942 as Engine 4.
It had the capacity for several forestry lines.
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This 1940s Chevy patrol truck served in Dennis.
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Falmouth Dodge Power Wagon brush truck from 1940s.
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Otis built its first brush breaker on this 1944 Diamond T
chassis with a 1000 gallon tank.
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BRUSH TRUCKS AND BREAKERS
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1951 Chevy patrol truck in town of Bourne.
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Town of Barnstable Forest Fire patrolmen stand
with their 1950 patrol truck.
Patrol trucks were typically the only manned apparatus in town
and were often first to arrive at
incidents of any type. When not fighting fires, they maintained
fire roads and equipment.
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Harwich Fire Department operated this large brush breaker built on a 1950 Ford
chassis
by Robinson. It carried 1500 gallons of water.
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Harwich Engine 5, 1950 brush breaker in front of
the East Harwich Fire Station
that opened in 1976.
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The Harwich Brush Breaker, designated Engine 5, was dubbed
the "White
Elephant" It retired in the 1970's.
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This 1930 Ford Model A with a 75 gpm pump and 200
gallon tank was originally
Centerville-Osterville Engine 3. It was bought by Mashpee in 1943 and
was the
first fire truck in Mashpee operated by the forest warden even before the
fire
department organized in 1950. It then became Mashpee Engine 1 and
served
until 1958.
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This 1950 Dodge 800 gallon pumper served as Mashpee Engine 2.
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