I'm with you Bus! I always like the old traditional white & red that Baltimore had as well. They should have went with a slightly modified scheme that the command unit has (the one in your avatar pic), all white with that lower red stripe but wider.
Here are some shots I have been meaning to share that I took within the last month or so.
First up is MAC Car 6... Anyone correct me if I'm wrong, but from my understanding MAC stands for medical assistant car.
Medic 24. Finally got it posed!
23 Truck with the wheels painted white now! LOOKS PRETTY DAMN SWEET!!! It would be cool if the city painted a lot of their apparatus wheels like this!
Here are some shots from Medals Day a few weeks ago.
12 Truck from Liberty Heights Ave.
Another shot showing the American flag waving
Rear of Truck 1 "Oldtown"
The trucks arching the flag with City Hall in the background
Viewing way over from the other side with the War Memorial Building in back.
Fells Point's 5 Engine with City Hall in the background
From front to back: Medic 7, EMS 3, HazMat 1, Rsv Squad 11 xSQ11 (running as SQ 47), and Engine 5 with the City Hall dome!
All, or if not, most of the Battalion Chief cars parked side by side nosed in.
EMS 2 next to the German Church.
and 10 Truck "Wicked Stick of the West"
Good recent photos, why are the aerial a different color? Didn't those two trucks come in on the same order?
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I'm curious to know if the White over Red paint job and the scotchlite striping was first done by Leesburg, then copied by the Fairfax County units, or vice versa ??? Anyone know ??? I'm thinking perhaps Fairfax County units set the bar for others to follow.....
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If you look at the older Fairfax County rigs from the late 1960's and through the first order of
E\-One's on the Duplex chassis in the early 1980s, the Scotchlite trim on the front of the rigs was formed in the shape of the letter V. The officer's last name that was in charge of the Apparatus Section at the time began with the letter V and the legend was born that the V on the front of the FXCO rigs was because of his last name.
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Good recent photos, why are the aerial a different color? Didn't those two trucks come in on the same order?
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Thanks! Not sure why the aerial ladders were different colors, but I know the rearmounts are 105ft and the tillers are 100ft. They were all delivered around the same time in 2007. Truck 2 (now Truck 3) is the twin to T 1 and T 10, 12, 16, and 18 recieved the tillers.