So often when Down Town areas revitalize, parking is an issue and there is not a lot of space downtown for full-size fire trucks to do their job. Often parking behind buildings is limited and they really pack in the available parking. In front there is also little if any room and it takes too long to get a truck in, find a hydrant and douse the blaze. Yet consider if you will a smaller more versatile unit?

Perhaps an ATV mini-fire truck makes sense? Well it just so happens that many such units are available and they do exist. An ATV mini-fire truck geared correctly can get to the blaze quickly thru heavy traffic and right to the fire without the extra waiting time. Even if it cannot put out the entire fire it can subdue it and curtail its spread until re-enforcements arrive.

This is why when considering Down Town revitalization project the economic development associations should consider mini-fire trucks rather than adding too much cost to tearing down all the buildings to make room for large fire trucks in case of a fire. Here is a picture of the most simplest of models and Fire Departments can speck them out from there;

http://www.alexisfire.com/FireEquipment/NewDeliveries/GrandHavenCC114/Rrear_zm.jpg

The key is to limit the gallons per minute on the pump and use a more restrictive flow for a more powerful spray to conserve the limited on-board water supplies. It is a worthy concept and this is why more and more down town areas are considering ATV fire suppression enabled technologies to be deployed to protect the people and those down town returning shoppers bringing more sales tax revenue and jobs back to the city. Consider all this in 2006.