Tele-Squrt 35

The Tele-Squrt 35 was a 35 foot aerial device introduced by the Snorkel Fire Equipment Company in 1975. It combined features from Snorkel's Squrt and Tele-Squrt. Like the Squrt it was an articulating boom device with a remotely operated nozzle at the tip. It also featured a telescoping boom allowing for a very compact device. Unlike the larger Tele-Squrt, it was not provided with a ladder on the boom.
Despite using the Tele-Squrt name it was essentially a smaller version of the 54 ft Squrt. It was only offered for a few years, apparently being discontinued by the early 1980s.
The Tele-Squrt 35 was designed to allow an easy retrofit to existing pumpers. As a result it is not unusual to find a Tele-Squrt 35 mounted on an apparatus older than 1975. Existing units were also occasionally remounted on new apparatus so can occassionally be seen on apparatus from the 1990s and even early 2000s despite its being discontinued years earlier.
The Ladder Tower Company acquired Snorkel in 2014 but does not appear to have plans to re-introduce the Tele-Squrt 35.
Category:Aerial devices