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Hey Kevin, us 4th Battalion (at the time) Brothers couldn't get that St. E's detail. I heard it was sweet. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />



Similar to a FDNY detail. Even with that, it was a good setup that as usual, the DC Gov't dropped the ball.

DCFIREMAN- AWESOME pictures!!!! Do you have any more shots of the Rescue Companies, especially R3? Is Mooch (S.M.) still on the job, last I saw him he was at R3, that would have been about 98 or 99 or so....He is a friend of a friend, who put me in touch with him, and I went down there and rode regularly...Was cool because as a Federal Firefighter, they let me bring my bunker gear and go in and play....Saw some GOOD fire that way, dont know to this day WTF would have happened if I had gotten hurt, was just young and dumb back then.....LOL great memories! Thanks for the pics!

Engine 6

Does anyone have info on this truck? The photo was taken in April of 2003



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I heard from a buddy of mine accross the river, you guys were getting some new rescues also? any truth to that?

The Spartan is sure a unique piece.

Freightliner Rescue



ManGM

Amertek



Photo Credits The Commish

Another Amertek



Photo Credits The Commish

Pierce Command Unit



Photo Credits Firepix1075

Here's a couple of shots from the archives of a DCFD Fire Academy Fire Prevention Show in 1969.

Unknown photographer,Warren Jenkins collection.

Photo 2. Looks like the Wards and Pirschs are off to fight a training tower blaze.

Unknown photographer, Warren Jenkins collection.

I think the rig assigned to E06 in the photo was a '00 Seagrave TB. Corrections welcome.

[quote name='bige1998' post='84970' date='Mar 10 2007, 09:09 ']Engine 6

Does anyone have info on this truck? The photo was taken in April of 2003



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Ladder 68 is correct. The wagon is DC Shop No. S-130, the former apparatus of Engine Co. 6, a 2000 Seagrave TB-40, 1250/500, in service on January 15, 2001. It was replaced in 2005 by a similar Seagrave. S-130 is presently Ready Reserve Engine 59, quartered with Engine 6 and Truck 4 at 1300 New Jersey Ave NW.

Whatever happened to the IH pumper?

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Foam Unit getting ready to go to the White House for standby in 1984

[quote name='hawkins point' post='84637' date='Mar 8 2007, 23:12 ']I understand that this is the only pumper that DCFD ever had that had a generator.[/quote]

You are correct. Most information I post on this site I plagiarize from Curt Elie (as I only steal from the best), the eminent DCFD historian. He tells me that E31 and E27's 1998 Seagraves only had power units for the spreaders and cutters. To a person as quick witted as I, anything in a compartment on a slide-out tray that has a pull handle is a generator. However, the Spartan/ E\-One was the only pumper with a genuine generator.

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S 371 1981



Continuing with DCFD trucks: In 1981 a Hahn/ LTI 100’ steel ladder was placed in service as Truck 9; $267,000 price tag and 28 tons. Because this rig had no axle locks, as did all previous trucks, the hydraulic outriggers were mandatory for any use – the proper span being sixteen feet. Height to the top of the tiller cage was 11’5”. The turning radius on this truck was 34 ½’, the same as a standard Mack CF chassis pumper.



Photo: No. 3 Platoon drills on Truck 9 in front of quarters, 1981.

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S 372, 1982



DC took delivery on a Hahn Fire Spire 106’ ladder truck in 1982. The trailer frame (minus the traditional goose-neck configuration) and outrigger system were unique to Hahn. The 106’ steel ladder had only one hoisting piston, and a waterway piped to the 85’ level. It went to Truck Co. 4.



Photo: June 1985, fire at Bolling Air Field

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S 373, 1983



Truck 6 received the second and final Hahn Fire Spire in 1983. It had an 82/94 flared cab and louvers on the generator compartment that S 372 did not have. It was assigned to Truck 14 when this photo was taken, May 14, 1992.

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The generator compartment on the three Hahn trucks, located between the cab and the turntable, came out as far as the running board on the driver’s side, but was shortened on the officer’s side to allow a facing jump seat for the sixth firefighter.