What route does the Winchester Apple Blossom Fire Parade take, and what time does it start?

In a news release from Smeal Fire Apparatus Co. dated April 22nd 2015, Smeal has announced the sale of 24 custom apparatus to the City of Vancouver British Columbia. The order is valued at approximately $24 Million (U.S. Dollars) and consists of nine pumpers, five rescue pumpers and ten 105' aerial ladders. All the apparatus will have Waterous CMUC20  2,250 GPM two stage pumps, Waterous CAFS, 500 gallon water tanks and 72 gallon foam cells. All apparatus will be built on Smeal Sirius custom chassis, with deliveries sceduled to begin in January of 2016. A more detailed fact sheet can be seen in the Smeal Website.

Looking for pictures of Structural Wildland Pumpers...especially Spartan/Smeal varieties....also looking for hosebed configuration and compartment configurations.  Thanks!

Here are additional rigs taken at CT. stations on the photo shoots accompaning the Silver City Fire Fest events.  This years event is July 11th in Meriden, CT.  It is well worth your time to attend this venue.  Many dealers of various items for purchase as well as many rigs to picture on the premises of the hotel. Held at the Comfort Inn and Suites, 900 E. Main St.,  Meriden, Ct.

 

Old Saybrook FD

 

   

This afternoon Littleton Engine 16 and South Metro Brush 40 responded to a small vegetation fire spread over a few hundred yards along the Burlington Northern Santa Fe tracks near Chatfield State Park.  It wasn't much of an incident but the combination of fire buffing and rail fanning was kinda cool...

   

This could be a game changer. I know that this would fit a lot of departments very well.

http://www.piercemfg.com/Ascendant
 

Quote:Behold the new Ascendant 107 steel aerial ladder from Pierce. With 107 vertical height and 100 horizontal reach on a single rear axle, its brilliantly designed and engineered to give you more capabilities with no sacrifice in water capacity, performance or safety. You refuse to compromise. And so do we.

South Haven F.D. (Portage Twp.) (Porter Co.)

2012 Spartan/Spencer

1500/1000/50

 

Photo Mike Tenerelli

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On April 15th around 3:00PM Box Alarm 47-80 was dispatched for a dwelling fire in the Morrell Park section of southwest Baltimore. Squad 47 reported heavy smoke when they got on the street and headed in that direction. They arrived first with a 2 1/2 story frame duplex with heavy smoke showing everywhere and heavy fire from the Bravo side.  One of the firefighters on duty for the day on Squad 47 lives in the house that was the Bravo exposure and the siding was starting to melt from the extreme heat.  When Acting Battalion Chief 3 arrived on the scene he made it a working fire followed one minute later with the second alarm. There was a partial collapse and a bulging wall on the Delta side and exterior operations were set up pretty much from the start.

 

These are the conditions as I arrived pretty much with the second alarm units:

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on 4/15/2015 Revere Fire responded to this W/F @ 351 Park Ave. Fire involved a 1 story brick taxpayer.

First arriving companies encountered a heavy smoke condition. After entry was made a fir was located in the rear of the building.

Fire was K/D within 20 minutes.

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About 17:45, Truck 7 was returning from covering Gresham Sta. 71. As they were turning into the rear driveway of Sta. 7

they were dispatched to assist Eng. 29 on 122nd Ave. at Johnson Creek. They continued through the station and out the front door,

pausing for me to get in.

A man had fallen about 40 feet down the steep bank of the creek. Fortunately he stopped just short of the fast flowing water.

Eng. 29 set up a low angle rope system and Truck 7 took their Stokes stretcher down to the victim who did not appear to

have serious injuries.