[
attachment=19600]
The 1990’s were an extremely difficult time for the Apparatus Division. The city had a junk bond rating and Congress established the Commission on Budget and Financial Priorities to oversee city expenditures. We no longer dealt with city hall. This occurred at a time when the number of runs exploded. Engine 10, always busy, came into the 1980’s doing around 2500 runs a year. In 1995 they ran over 8900. The shelf live on apparatus was cut considerably, and it was a hard sell to explain to Congress that the DCFD really DID need more apparatus. This photo shows reserve apparatus parked on the street (and in the neighborhood) as mechanics worked around the clock to service first line apparatus.
[
attachment=19601]
Although thirty-five wagons had been purchased since the last Hahns, the Hahns were still performing!
[
attachment=19602]
After forty-eight months at Engine 10, S-102 was transferred to the less busy Engine 29 in order to get a few more years out of it. Photo is apartment fire at MacArthur Blvd. and V St. NW, February 28, 2001.
[
attachment=19603]
The last 1996
E\-One, S-103, is still on the inventory as E-34, a driver training piece assigned to the Academy. The other two have been disposed. February 27, 2007 photo.
Nice shots. Its good to see DCFD got turned around.
Note Corgi made the E 16 in the stars and bars an Code 3 did Engine 2 in white over red.
I don't remember, Code 3 doing Eng-2, I thought they did the
E\-One from Eng-10.
Does anyone have pics of the new DCFD Heavy Wrecker they are using?
[quote name='hungrybus' post='119042' date='Jun 13 2007, 17:21 ']I don't remember, Code 3 doing Eng-2, I thought they did the
E\-One from Eng-10.[/quote]
It was E-10 as they also did T-13 and the station they are both housed in.
[quote name='wagonchauffer01' post='119043' date='Jun 13 2007, 14:23 ']Does anyone have pics of the new DCFD Heavy Wrecker they are using?[/quote]
Someone posted some shots of the new wrecker in this thread
[url="http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/index.php?showtopic=4949&hl=wrecker"]http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/index....&hl=wrecker[/url]
Yoiu are correct E 10 BUT they could do Engine 2 if they wanted to
with all the repaints they've been doing, it'll probably be an August release <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/stirpot.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />
[
attachment=20097]
The chronology continues - 1998: S-104 and S-105
As mentioned earlier in this thread the 1990’s were turbulent for the city and the department. The DCFD in quick succession went to single piece engine companies, from eight to seven to six battalions, 5-man to 4-man engines, 6/5-man trucks to 4-man trucks, and “early out” retirements. In 1993, Engine Companies 3 and 34 were disbanded, followed by the disbandment of Truck Co. 1 downtown and Rescue Squad Co. 4 in upper northwest in 1995.
A small counterweight to all this was when the department purchased two rescue pumpers from
Seagrave in 1998. These were the first
Seagrave pumpers bought in fifty years, and came equipped with cutters and spreaders. S-105 went to Engine Co. 31, quarters of the former Rescue Squad 4.
Lt. Jeff Stauffer in ’98.
[
attachment=20099]
Engine 27 received the other 1998
Seagrave, S-104. The galvaneal steel wagons were the first in DC with Detroit 50 power plants, driving 1500 GPM pumps. September 11, 2002 image.
[
attachment=20100]
DC specs reduced water tank size on wagons to 500-gallons. This made for much improved hose beds, both rear and transverse, over any apparatus purchased since the last Hahns in 1983.
[quote name='Pete(UK)' post='92538' date='Mar 30 2007, 14:09 ']Older tiller found on georgia ave[/quote]
One of the two
Seagrave TDA's 100 ft models that the DCFD bought from Richmond, VA.
[
attachment=20101]
For the first time I'm having problems with uploading a digital image - no matter what I do, the machine says its too large (even when I make it miniscule, whether jpeg, tif, or gif -- nothing!) So I'll skip the rest of the 1998 Seagraves and move on to the next era...
1998, S-106 through 109
On the heels of success with the
Seagrave wagons, the DCFD took delivery on four
E\-One Cyclone II pumpers built to the same specifications. These 1500 GPM pumpers were powered by Detroit 50’s and had 500-gallon tanks. August 26, 2002 photo of E-4.
[
attachment=20102]
S-106 through 109 went to Engines 4, 18, 26, and 33. Photo of Engine 26 c.2000.
[
attachment=20103]
This color-pixilated image comes across better in black and white. The rigs had a good amount of dead space over the rear axle and were known to fishtail on occasion when slamming on the brakes. Engine 4 had fishtailed a couple of times on Sherman Avenue; this was attributed to undisciplined drivers and officers.
Engine 4’s wagon works a Box Alarm at 512 R St. NW, November 23, 2001.
[
attachment=20104]
E-33 had the dubious distinction of hitting the brakes and spinning through the fence at the Training Academy. Notwithstanding the undisciplined drivers and officers concerned, certain design criteria may have played a role in the mishap. Engine 33 went on to bigger and better things as shown in this May 11, 2001 photo.