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Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-23-2014
Tanker.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-23-2014
Brand new grass rig.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-23-2014
Old grass rig. This one will be replaced in 2015.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Melbourne, IA has nine pieces of apparatus in their station. Truck 1 is their parade piece, but their chief did mention that it gets used from time to time.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Truck 2 used to be a 1000-gallon tanker, but it's been converted to a light unit.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Engine 4.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Engine 6.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Tanker 7.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Engine 10.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
I don't think Engine 10 would fit into the Melbourne city garage if they tried.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Grass rig 11.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 09-30-2014
Grass rig 12.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-08-2014
Next stop is Haverhill, a community of 176 in Marshall County. Engine 1.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-08-2014
Tanker 3.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-08-2014
Brush truck 4. Haverhill is almost done with a new station on the south edge of town, and they hope to be in it by the end of the year. Oh, and there is no Engine 2, it was sold off some years ago. Next stop is Le Grand.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-09-2014
Le Grand, in far eastern Marshall County, was the last stop of the day. Dwindling light ended the photography before we got all the apparatus out of the station, but here are three rigs.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-09-2014
New tanker.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-09-2014
Grass rig.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-11-2014
Mount Vernon, IA, is a sister town to Lisbon which I posted earlier. Tanker 210.
Iowa Rigs - aohunt - 10-11-2014
First Responder rig 211.