Pierce 100th Anniversary Parade 7-13-2013

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Last Saturday, Pierce celebrated their 100th anniversary with a parade and plant open house.  It was a beautiful day for a parade which had 60 pieces of apparatus, both old and new.  Over the next few days I'll post some of the images I took of the parade.

 

Here are the first few:

 

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Here's the 100th Anniversary sign outside the plant

 

 

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Here's the first rig to lead off the parade, alomng with a couple of tribute units.

 

 

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Next up was Natioanl Fallen Firefighters Foundation and breat cancer trubute rig.

 

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Here were the next units

 

 

 

 

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Here were the next ones

 

I'll post more tomorrow.

[SrFireOfficial]

Thanks for posting!

[Juice]

The Jonesboro rig is a 1976 Ford C, and still in service! Jonesboro is in Mill Twp, in fact we run rescue and EMS in their town, as they only provide fire coverage. To say that the rig is still in service, you have to understand that they have a 2005 International/Pierce Contender as well that replaced a 1966 IHC. The Ford pictured above doesn't get used too much, however. Pierce has currently given them a 2012(or 13) Pierce Velocity demo to use while they have this truck, as I believe it is going to F.R.I. next.

 

Trav!

[hank]

Good photos!

 

tHANKs

[Guest]

Any Pierce arrow cars there?

[Guest]

The Jonesboro rig is a 1976 Ford C, and still in service! Jonesboro is in Mill Twp, in fact we run rescue and EMS in their town, as they only provide fire coverage. To say that the rig is still in service, you have to understand that they have a 2005 International/Pierce Contender as well that replaced a 1966 IHC. The Ford pictured above doesn't get used too much, however. Pierce has currently given them a 2012(or 13) Pierce Velocity demo to use while they have this truck, as I believe it is going to F.R.I. next.

 

Trav!

Trav, Is this original to Jonesboro? If not,was it from Perryville,MD.? They had a twin if not the same one.

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Here's a few more.

 

 

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And the guys from Oshkosh even had their officer riding in the rig.

 

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Next in line

 

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Next up

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Followed by

 

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Another antique snuck in along the way

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Followed by a few more

 

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With a few more

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Followed by a classic mini-pumper and new tanker.

 

That's all for now.