DETROIT FIRE ENGINE OPERATOR (FEO) JOSEPH TORKOS WAS FATALLY INJURED AFTER AN ACCIDENT AT W GRAND BLVD & 14TH ST THIS EVENING WHILE RESPONDING TO A BOX ALARM FOR A FIRE IN A VACANT DWELLING. FEO TORKOS WAS PINNED UNDER THE RIG AFTER BEING EJECTED. LT. GRYSKO ALSO IS IN VERY SERIOUS CONDITON AT THIS TIME WHO WAS ALSO IN THE RIG AT THE TIME OF THE ACCIDENT THE 2 DECKIES (FIREFIGHTERS) WERE ALSO TRANSPORTED AND ARE IN TEMP. SERIOUS CONDITION. FURTHER INFO AS ITS AVAILABLE.
REST IN PEACE BROTHER.... YOUR IN A BETTER PLACE NOW....
Well after no luck with Renyolds Store VFD on purchasing the 1971 ALF Rescue and deciding against the 67 Seagrave I found a 1971 ALF pumper. After going to PA to look at it and some lunch I purchased it. The unit was at my house this past Wednesday evening.
After a couple of hours Thursday replacing batteries and some other minor things I was able to start the 8V71 with no problems (it hasn't been run since summer), she smoked for thirty seconds and sounds great, no mechanical problems that I can find.
She is originally from Meyersdale PA and after a phone call to them, they still have all of the maintenance records, part and filter numbers, etc. I am the fifth owner of the unit. Other than some body work (rust issues) she should be ready for some parades by this Christmas.
Specs: 1971 ALF 1000 Series, 8V71 Detroit Diesel, 5 speed manual, 1250 GPM Hale pump, 750 gallon water tank. I will take some better pictures of the unit once the weather gets a little nicer here.
I am going to have to make the hose bed dividers, cross lay divider and the trays for the hard sleeves, I can't seem to track them down.
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WLF Serial Number P-8-001 was built for the Air Force in 1978 as a prototype diesel-powered combination structural and brush pumper. The Classification A/S-32P-8 indicates that the apparatus will pump 500 GPM, carry 600 gallons of water and 55 gallons of foam, and have 4 wheel drive. Previous P-8's were gasoline powered and based on Ford C-Series chassis. The prototype P-8 was delivered along with a Ward LaFrance Patriot P-12D prototype (2 wheel drive, 750 GPM) as "First Article Test" vehicles, but only the P-12D was produced in quantity (about 60).
P-8-001 was retired from the Air Force around 1991 and served the Georgia Department of Corrections at the Wilcox State Prison in Abbeville, GA until around 2000. At that time, it became the property of the Fire Department in Subligna, GA. Subligna retired it in 2005, selling it to a truck repair shop in Dalton, GA. Today, P-8-001 became mine.
Being fairly new to the board I don't know if there has been much posting of Alexandria FD's rigs. Alexandria is just across the
Potomac River from Washington, DC, south of Arlington County and North of Fairfax County. Alexandria, Fairfax County, and Arlington County have an automatic aid agreement to dispatch rigs based on closest to incident that has been in place for at least since at least the 80s.
As I have time I will add some of what I have of their current fleet of rigs. Older rigs and some of the rigs I don't have in digital format will need to be scanned as I have time. Hope you enjoy keep checking back. Please feel free to add what you have as well.
Engine 204, Extrication Engine 204 when responding on extrication calls, is located at 900 2nd Street, at Powhatan St on the North Side of Old Town Alexandria, close to the GW Parkway. Station 204 is the closes Alexandria station to Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.
I got to digging around in the CD's looking for a few certain photos and found some old shots of Memphis Fires from years back I took. I figured id share them.
Starting out with this shot of Ken Lawler of E24 at this House Fire on Friday the 13th in Sept of 2002.
This photo still remains as one of my favorites that I have taken.
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