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Selling of my collection of Code 3's. All are mint in box or domes and have the certificates. Here's a list of what I have. Please email me any inquiries and I'll get back to you asap.



PUMPS



Seminole County, FL E-42 Pierce Quantum


Wood River, IL E-13 American LaFrance


L.A. County, CA E-79 Freightliner


Portland, OR E-9 American LaFrance


Orange County, FL E-65 Freightliner


Jacksonville, FL Tanker 28 Freightliner


Jacksonville, FL E-32 American LaFrance


Chicago, IL E-92 Freightliner


L.A. County, CA E-60 Crown Firecoach


Honolulu, HI E-14 Crown Firecoach


Cedar Hill, TX E-211 Pierce Dash Top-Mount


Mason, OH Quint 51 Pierce Quantum


L.A. City, Hollywood, E-27 Seagrave


L.A. City Pierce Dash E-39


Orlando, FL E-2 Sutphen


FDNY Bureau of Training Seagrave


FDNY E-283 Seagrave


FDNY E-82 Seagrave (can be sold as set w/ TL31)


FDNY E-9 Seagrave


LADDERS



Sag Harbor, NY L-1 American LaFrance RMA


Chicago-O'Hare L-63 Pierce RMT


Orlando, FL T-2 Sutphen MMT


L.A. City L-39 Simon/LTI TDA


Washington D.C. L-4 Seagrave TDA (J.C. Penny release)


FDNY Bureau of Training Seagrave TDA


FDNY L-42 Seagrave RMA


FDNY TL31 Seagrave MMT (can be sold as set w/ E-82)



COMMAND AND SPECIALTY




L.A. City Bell Huey Unit 2 MIB




FDNY Fireboat John Harvey (with case/cover)


FDNY Fireboat Fire Fighter Marine 9 (with case/cover)




Chicago Fire Dept. Firehouse from Backdraft




Chicago-O'Hare E-655 Oshkosh Crash Truck


Milwaukee, WI LDV Command and Communication Unit


Chicago-O'Hare Incident Communications Unit 278 LDV


FDNY Ford E-350 RAC Unit 4


Chicago Ford E-350 Spec. Ops. Unit 561


FDNY Ford F-350 FIU


Newark, NJ GMC Suburban Deputy Chief 1


East Windsor, NJ GMC Suburban U-142


 

 

AMBULANCE


L.A. City Ford E-350 Unit 39

 

 

 

DIAMOND PLATES


FDNY E-88


FDNY E-68


Chicago E-102




All reasonable offers please. Will consider trades. Looking for any of the Marauder II FDNY pieces.

Is this photo offensive?

 

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-la...6665.story

 

Apparently some people find the photo posted in the above linked article to be offensive setting off yet another "controversy" A little background on where this photo was taken.

 

The first week in June to help raise money for LAFRA (Los Angeles Firemen's relief association) the LAFD holds an event in Downtown known as Hope 4 Firefighter's. It's a fantastic event. Various Los Angeles Fire Station's with a corporate sponsor line Hope St in Downtown LA and serve either food or desert there is also a theme as seen in the photo in the article. While enjoying a culinary delight from one of the booths spectators can watch muster teams from local business's partake in several muster events the winning team being crowned Hope 4 Firefighter's champ.

 

 

Now my rant.

I am Hispanic and I don't find this photo the least bit offensive. I think it's quite funny what offends me is those who are claiming to be offended by this photo. I can't believe there are those who find this photo to be offensive fake mustaches and sombreros? Give me a break there are bigger issues going on in the world right now than a group of firefighter's posing for a funny photo with the Chief!.

On Tuesday afternoon during a record setting high temperature day (103 degrees) and 20 mph winds... Aurora Firefighters were dispatched to a fence fire threatening a structure at 1735 South Pagosa Way.  First due Engine 9 sized up two homes fully involved with exposure problems and transmitted a 2nd Alarm. 

 

This is a patio home community with poor access and narrow walkways.  The buildings in Red were a total loss, the orange sustained heavy damage.

   

 

These first shots were taken by fellow photographer Dave Radomski from the west side of the incident, he arrived a little before I did.

   

On going as I type is the Black Forest Fire burning in northern El Paso County, Colorado.  The fire started on June 11th in the community of Black Forest and quickly grew into a raging interface fire.  Currently northeastern portions of the City of Colorado Springs are under mandatory evacuation.  Multiple air & ground resources are assigned to the 15,000+ acre fire which destroyed 360 home as of this morning... The Waldo Canyon Fire in Colorado Springs last July destroyed 346 homes, making it the now second most destructive.   There are fears that several people may have been killed and the CO USAR TF1 has been on stand by to go search once the fire conditions calm down.

 

I was able to get some photos yesterday... This is what it looked like from southern Elbert County around 11 am.

   

 

Flames from fully involved structures and group torching could be seen from several miles away

   

Here are two that I shot while visiting Station 11.

 

http://youtu.be/ePcGOnYl6Go

 

 

http://youtu.be/E4jjasLfDP0

 

 

Webbs Mills FD

1862

2013 Peterbilt 367/Pierce

1000/3000

#25705

This afternoon I stopped by Clark County Fire Dept's Station 11 and while I was there the Rescue and Ladder were toned out for a vehicle fire on the strip. The vehicle was a Bell Tran Shuttle Bus and it was basically a total loss.

 

Engines 15 and 19

Truck 11

Rescue 11

 

along with Metro and Nevada State Patroll were on the scene,

 

By the time I was able to get there the fire was out but I did get a few pictures. As I was leaving Station 11 I could see a nice black collum of smoke.

 

Truck 11 blocking traffic.

 

On 5/16/13 Gresham Fire was dispatched to a report of a house fire. The first due engine reported seeing a large header from about 1/2 mile out and requested an additional water tanker due to the remote location. Initial reports indicated there was an occupant unaccounted for. First in crews made an aggressive attack while other crews made a search. They found the occupant just a few feet inside the front door, the crews worked for about 30 minutes to try and revive the patient but unfortunately were unsuccessful.

 

 



 

 



 

 



 

 



 

 



 

 

 



 

 

 



 

 

At approximately 6:40pm dispatch reported a two car MVA at Highway 26 and Hillyard Rd. I left as soon as I heard the initial dispatch since I knew this was a bad intersection. By the time I reached my car it was upgraded to a pin-in with one car on fire and Life Flight was placed on standby due to the location, severity of the accident and time of day. I arrived on scene right behind the first due engine.

 

First shot walking up.



 

 

 

A view from the other side.

You can see the car that was struck by the high speed driver was completely torn into two pieces and the motor was several hundred feet from the car. Needless to say the driver did not survive the collision.