Iowa Rigs

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Tanker.

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Brand new grass rig.

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Old grass rig.  This one will be replaced in 2015.

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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.

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Truck 2 used to be a 1000-gallon tanker, but it's been converted to a light unit.

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Engine 4.

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Engine 6.

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Tanker 7.

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Engine 10.

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I don't think Engine 10 would fit into the Melbourne city garage if they tried.

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Grass rig 11.

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Grass rig 12.

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Next stop is Haverhill, a community of 176 in Marshall County.  Engine 1.

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Tanker 3.

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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.

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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.

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New tanker.

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Grass rig.

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Mount Vernon, IA, is a sister town to Lisbon which I posted earlier.  Tanker 210.

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First Responder rig 211.