If you are a SPAAMFAA member, you will already have received a flyer from Matt regarding the reprinting of 3 of his 4 books, if not this may be of interest:

 

A. Seagrave 125 ANNIVERSARY - 392 Pages & 1,000 Fotos

B. PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE FIRE ENGINE - 320 pages & 700+ Fotos

C. PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE FIRE ENGINE - Decade of the 1920's - 4323 Pages & 850+ fotos

The books cost $70 each, including shipping, or $175 for all 3 with free shipping.  I purchased all 3 of these books when they were published back in the 90's, and consider them to be in the top 5 or 6 of all the books published dealing with apparatus.

Spoke with Matt earlier today, and the other good news is that Pictorial History of the Fire Engine, Vol 3 is due out this summer.  It will be about 500 pages with 1,000 fotos.  Can't wait to see this one!  Volume 4 covering the 1940's is also progressing well.

We're in the final stages of specing out our tower ladder and we're running into 2 options for ground ladders that are causes some healthy arguments. First of we're a small department consisting of 6 firefighters per. We have an area of town with a lot of triple deckers(we're a northeast mill town) another area with a apartment complex (5 buildings) whihc are 3 stories. the rest of the town is a mix of ranches and colonials. Option A- 40' with poles, 35', 28',20' roof, 16' roof, 14' fresno, 10; folding.

Option B- 2-35', 2-28',20' roof, 16' roof, 14' fresno, 10; folding

 

Option A's supporters want it for rescue capabilities on the 3rd floor of the complexs and the triple deckers

 

Option B's supporters feel the 40' will take too much man power and will never be used, and feel that more 28's and 35's will fit us better operationally. and both of those ladder should reach a 3rd floor if needed.

 

 

please help! Your opinions will help and may include facts not though of.

I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this.

 

I am in need of blueprints, measurements, and/or drawing of an early '50s FWD open-cab pumper, an example of which is attached. Does anyone know if any of the old FWD brochures/catalogs might show this info?

The 2015 Fire Apparatus Calendar is now available from the Metropolitan Fire Association of Atlanta, GA.

 

 

This full color calendar has a photo of a different fire apparatus from the metropolitan Atlanta area featured on each page. Front & rear covers are fire scenes. The dates are marked for 24/24 & 24/48 shifts. There are also many notable fire related events as well as upcoming events. Previous years' calendars have had favorable reviews in Fire Apparatus Journal.

 

 

A plastic pocket calendar color coded for the 24/48 shifts is included with the full sized calendar.

 

 

Please visit our web site: www.metrofire.org It has online ordering process and permits payments by credit card through the PayPal service. The site also provides a printable invoice that can be combined with a check and sent to our PO Box for conventional mail orders.

 

 

Calendars are still $5.00/each but our Shipping and Handling fees changed in 2014 due to increases in postage and supplies.  These fees are calculated for each order and displayed as a formatted invoice so you can review your order and fees, before you proceed to the Paypal service or print your invoice.

 

 

Make check or money order in US funds payable to MFA .

 

Send to:

 

 

MFA-2015

 

Box 80607

 

Atlanta, GA 30366

 

 

The calendar is a fund-raising project of the Metropolitan Fire Association of Atlanta, Ga., member club of International Fire Buffs Association, operator of the Hot News Alert Network paging network.

 

 

Hey all I started a Facebook group for photography and videos of Emergency Vehicles if anybody who is on Facebook and would like to please take a few and stop by and check it out and hopefully join.

 

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1518090741809775/

After looking at some publishing options, I am considering releasing a monthly e-zine of Firepics content to supplement the budget of the website and to be used to recruit new members.  It would be free to all members through a pdf download on the site and available for 99 cents as a Kindle Single.  

 

Of course, this would constitute a modification of the user agreement/posting guidelines.  I would ask for releases from those whose images/content I wished to use, and compensation would be disbursed after the month's run of the e-zine.  Initially, there would be a diversion into the Firepics operating fund-probably 50% with the remaining 50% distributed equally among the contributors. In example, if there is a $100 profit, $50 would go to paying the webhosting, domain licensing, software licensing and legal representation, while each contributor would receive $5.  At a $1000 profit, those numbers increase to $50 per person. The payments would be made upon receipt of payment from Kindle for the month that the images/article appeared. Any sales of the e-zine after disbursement has been made (back-issue sales) would not receive a disbursement. These numbers have the potential to be significantly more than any of the print magazines are offering.  As time goes on, I would like to attract advertisers, which would allow for 100% of the residuals to be divided among the contributors. Free membership extensions would also be given to contributors. (still trying to figure out something for Lifetime Members)

 

Obviously, this will not work without the support of the membership, so I'm throwing it out for discussion.  I'm not married to the idea, so do not feel that you are insulting me if you are not in favor. 

Anyone have any other pictures or info on this, Nashville Fire Department Tiller? 

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Quote:Holden, LA –FDNY has awarded Ferrara Fire Apparatus, America’s premier custom heavy duty fire apparatus manufacturer, a contract to build an additional twelve 100’ aerial ladders. The FDNY 100’ aerial ladders are built on the Ferrara Ultra custom chassis with a 3CR12 stainless steel split cab and feature a heavy duty stainless steel body, a quick 4-section 100’ rear mount ladder, and an 8kW hydraulic generator.


Company President/CEO Chris Ferrara stated, “It has and always will be an honor to be chosen by FDNY to supply such a critical product to protect the citizens of the City of New York”. Upon completion of the project, FDNY will have a total of seventy one Ferrara 100’ aerial ladders operating in the City of New York.

 

Looking for some photos of Rescue Tools on the front Bumper.  More specifically if anyone has photos of some HURST Edraulics tools on front bumpers that would be great.

 

Thanks in advance.

A few years ago I had an instructor in the academy that told us "San Jose or some department near there" had experimented with "tillered engines" that involved manually dropping the pump drive in place to the trailer. I have never seen anything like this, does anyone know anything about this or is he mistaken.