Montreal Fire Department 1970's

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 434 - 1974 Thibault 100 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 435 - 1975 Thibault 100 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 436 - 1950 Bickle Seagrave-Magirus 100 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 437 - 1956 Mack-Magirus 100 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 439 - 1962 Bickle Seagrave 75 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

Oops.  Ladder 439 was a King Seagrave not a Bickle Seagrave.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 442 - 1970 Thibault 100 ft. Note the manual jacks.  The first Montreal Thibault rear-mounts to have hydraulic jacks were the 1974's deliveries.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 443 - 1951 Bickle Seagrave 85 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 444 - 1961 Lafrance 100 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 445 - 1960 Thibault-Metz 100 ft.  Montreal had two such rigs.

[Ian Stronach]

Ladder 446 - 1960 Thibault-Metz 100 ft.

[Ian Stronach]

During the 1970's when I shot all these rigs Montreal had three heavy rescue squads - 605, 609 and 613.

 

Rescue 605 - 1955 Montreal Shops-Diamond T.  The unit had a large compressor onboard for air operated tools and fans.

[Ian Stronach]

Rescue 609 - 1958 Thibault

[Ian Stronach]

Rescue 613 - 1964 Montreal Shops-Ford.  Like 605 this squad had a compressor and air operated tools.

[Ian Stronach]

Rescue 603 - 1982 Fontaine-International.  The squad in Station 5 was moved to Station 3.

[Ian Stronach]

Squad 675 (spare) - 1948 Montreal Shops-Fargo.  When I shot this on August 3, 1974 it was running as Rescue 605.

[chief60]

Great shots, hard to believe they didn't outfit them with wooden cabs. I know it is cold in the winter!!

[Ian Stronach]

Platform 718 - 1962 Mussens-Trump-Ford 65 ft.  This was Montreal's first elevating platform.  When Montreal disposed of it in 1996 the boom was reused by Carl Thibault on a 1996 Ford LS-8000 for Berthier, Quebec Fire Dept.  

[Ian Stronach]

Platform 705 - 1966 Thibault-Trump-Ward Lafrance 90 ft.

[jlg1875]

Rescue 609 - 1958 Thibault

AWESOME, never saw this one before!