Baltimore City Fire Department

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Thanks, Howard!

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If I'm not mistaken the Aerial Tower companies were created by combining an engine & truck company. Not sure how they were used operationally.[quote name='Ltfcbbcfd' timestamp='1342914488' post='492907']

One of the former Aerial Towers, here being used as Reserve Truck 52, at a fireground on Calvert Street. Any help as to what AT is was would be appreciated!

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Yes, that is exactly how they were formed. They ran with 6 men originally. The problem was they ran all normal calls a inner city rig would run. They ran medical calls fire calls , misc aka junk calls you name it.

Then came the problem when they were first in on a working fire are we a engine or truck? Then they lost 2 guys off the towers for man power reasons. That left 4 guys to do all the work. You also gotta add to repack the supply line they had to raise the boom, also some streets here made it almost impossible to down because of the size also help cause their demise.

When they were taken out if service they were well used. On large fires they really did a good job. In my opinion the concept probably looked good on paper and for most part it worked. The hustle and bustle of inner city busy companies proved other wise.

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Picture of Airflex 2 on a fireground in East Baltimore

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Do you have apic of the truck in the background

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Go figure, it looked good on paper....



This is the reason most urban fire departmets resist quints....

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Yes, that is exactly how they were formed. They ran with 6 men originally. The problem was they ran all normal calls a inner city rig would run. They ran medical calls fire calls , misc aka junk calls you name it.

Then came the problem when they were first in on a working fire are we a engine or truck? Then they lost 2 guys off the towers for man power reasons. That left 4 guys to do all the work. You also gotta add to repack the supply line they had to raise the boom, also some streets here made it almost impossible to down because of the size also help cause their demise.

When they were taken out if service they were well used. On large fires they really did a good job. In my opinion the concept probably looked good on paper and for most part it worked. The hustle and bustle of inner city busy companies proved other wise.

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Here is a Sutphen being reloaded after a 2-bagger on Key Highway back in 1992, doesn't look like fun...

WW Jenkins photo

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Do you have apic of the truck in the background

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Yes, it is Reserve Engine 62. I'll scan a copy and post it soon for you

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Here is another shot of RT52, in action on a 4 alarm fire on the Eastside

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Nice shot I got of Engine 26 the other day at the new development behind their station, McHenry Row

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Engine 8, way out of their 1st due area, on a fireground in South Baltimore on Fort Avenue

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Truck 6 on a fire at a vacant building in Brooklyn, February 2012

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Truck 51, aka "Water Tower 1". It was being used by Truck 1 in this June 2010 photo

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are the BCFD Squads still in service? Are they used like an FDNY Squad Company?

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Reserve Engine 62, former 1st line of Engine 43

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Engine 55 at the Apparatus Coordinators Office

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Reserve Truck 44 (EX-T10) on Harford Road near the quarters of Engine 42

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Reserve Engine 64 (EX-E47 & E21) on a gray, rainy spring day

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Truck 20 parked on Belair Road during a 3 Alarm fire in July of 2010

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Reserve Truck 47 (EX-T18) parked at Biddle Street in early 2012

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Here is Car 417 (The Port-A-Potty Wagon) at a 5 Alarm fire in Fells Point in June of 2012