Winsted Squad 5 2011 Spartan/Smeal 1500 gpm pump speedy dry hopper, light tower, extrication tools. Will run first out during the day with the paid daytime driver. Will serve as a rescue company the rest of the time.
Ed Harvey
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
All fires will go out; and all bleeding will stop - eventually.
Winsted Engine 3 with also at the main station today, the lighting was really good (prob. should have brought the squad out back here) so I shot it again.
They share the Holabird Ave station with Engine 4 that is just several blocks from the main station, but on the other side of a bridge that crosses the Farmington River and up on a hill. Engine 1 is across yet another bridge and up hill from Main St. across the Mad River Winsted was wiped out by the flooding of the [url="http://www.cslib.org/flood1955.htm"]Mad River in October of 1955[/url].
Specs off their [url="http://www.winstedfire.org/apparatus.html"]website[/url]:
Truck 2 in Waterbury operated a 1990 Spartan Monarch with LTI bodywork, 1250 gpm-pump, 300 gwt, and 110' rearmount. Mark A.Redman photo - Juergen Kiefer collection. The 4-door enclosure seems to be an aftermarket conversion. Mark A.Redman photo - Juergen Kiefer collection.