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According to the April 2017 issue of Maryland Fire Dispatch, AES is showing a two door cab - tandem rear axle Pierce Arrow XT hazmat unit and eight Pierce Arrow XT pumpers on order for DCFD.

Quote:According to the April 2017 issue of Maryland Fire Dispatch, AES is showing a two door cab - tandem rear axle Pierce Arrow XT hazmat unit and eight Pierce Arrow XT pumpers on order for DCFD.

Thanks ! Glad to hear something ! If only someone knew where they will go and how many Seagrave Apparatus are coming .

I didn't see anything on AES web site

Quote:Thanks ! Glad to hear something ! If only someone knew where they will go and how many Seagrave Apparatus are coming .

 

I thought I read here that it was 9 Seagrave and 9 Pierce

Quote:I didn't see anything on AES web site

 

As I pointed out, this was in an AES ad in the current issue of Maryland Fire Dispatch, not on the AES website.  The ad included basic line drawings for the driver's side of these units.  Unlike apparatus manufacturers and other Pierce franchises, perhaps it is an AES policy to only display shop drawings or trucks in production if the customer authorizes them to do so.  I don't remember a lot of rigs from my former employer showing up under the Trucks in Production tab on the AES website.

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I thought I read here that it was 9 Seagrave and 9 Pierce

From what I have been told it was 6 Pierce wagons, 6 Seagrave wagons, Hazmat Unit, Aerialscope, and several buggies and ambulances. 

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As I pointed out, this was in an AES ad in the current issue of Maryland Fire Dispatch, not on the AES website.  The ad included basic line drawings for the driver's side of these units.  Unlike apparatus manufacturers and other Pierce franchises, perhaps it is an AES policy to only display shop drawings or trucks in production if the customer authorizes them to do so.  I don't remember a lot of rigs from my former employer showing up under the Trucks in Production tab on the AES website.

 

 Fairfax always thinks something is a secret but then photos always surface as soon as the rig hits the road from Pierce to AES or sometimes when people are up for midpoint inspections they catch photos and the new chief sends out monthly updates about special rigs like the tillers to his troops. It makes absolutely ZERO sense.

 

Good on DC for getting new engines hopefully they will have some more truck companies in the works soon too.

So, I walked out of a bar in Godknowswhere, Loudon County and came across four Seagraves sitting in the lot in an industrial park. Owing to the "Any photo is a good photo" mentality, I'll post them up here.

Missing the main...

Truck 11. I guess I missed the other pumper.

Any chance you got the shop number off the front of Engine 14?

Quote:Any chance you got the shop number off the front of Engine 14?

 

Nope sorry. I'm bad at that stuff, not a photographer, just a fireman with a cell phone.

What was the 4th Seagrave??

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Nope sorry. I'm bad at that stuff, not a photographer, just a fireman with a cell phone.

Danger what the heck were you doing there?? I like playing it off you walked out of the bar across the way of the regional Seagrave Service Center  . I see your ruse HAHAHA. 

Quote:Danger what the heck were you doing there?? I like playing it off you walked out of the bar across the way of the regional Seagrave Service Center  . I see your ruse HAHAHA. 

 

Haha. Look it up, Ocelot Brewing Company. If you go on Google Maps you can see tillers around the corner on Satellite view.

 

The 4th Seagrave was an engine, have no recollection of it.

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Haha. Look it up, Ocelot Brewing Company. If you go on Google Maps you can see tillers around the corner on Satellite view.

 

The 4th Seagrave was an engine, have no recollection of it.

Just me I'm well aware of where this place is and what's around it  

The place mentioned in this thread was First Vehicle Services Fleet Solutions, or as we call it FVS. Loudoun County (LCFR) and a few Volunteer Companies in Loudoun have been taking their apparatus to that shop since it opened a few years ago. Recently they picked up a lot of DCFD's work (as you can see). FVS seems to be doing well and picking up more business every day.

 

Brent

Damn I had no idea that shop was there, I pass by there from time to time. Great shots danger. 

Danger     Welcome to Loudoun County.  Stop in and see B'Head, great guy in command on an unbelievable station. 

what are the square box looking things above the rear cab doors