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Duane also took photos of each station, including some of the former St. Louis stations. I scanned a fww stations that had apparatus out frint. Here is Station 1 with Engine 1, Squad 1 and Engine 3.
- 1976 Photo by Duane Troxel  Quote:You must be having a bad weekend because I gotcha! 48 hours at the Station will do that to a guy, but the rigs ARE damn near identical!
St. Louis Station 7 with Engine 18, H&L 14 and Engine 7.
- 1976 Photo by Duane Troxel
St. Louis Station 5 with Reserve H&L 29, H&L 2.
- 1976 Photo by Steve Skaar
Info I have shows the twin Oshkosh rigs, Crash 43 and 47, had Boyer bodywork.
Here are a few photos I forgot to post earlier that I took in the St. Louis Fire Alarm Office in 1965.
- 1965 Photo by Steve Skaar
Here is a photo of their status board which had what looked like crytal plugs for each company that lighted up and could be moved around from station to station for moveups etc. At the time I thought this was the greatest thing I'd ever seen for a status board in an alarm office.
- 1965 Photo by Steve Skaar
I found this photo from one of the working fires we got to on our 1965 trip.
- 1965 Photo by Steve Skaar
And to end my part on this thread, here is a closeup photo Duane took of the St. Louis FD lettering with two-tone shadowing. I'm sure there will be many more photos of apparatus from 1976 on posted. Fire away!
- 1976 Photo by Duane Troxel
One thing I have not seen mentioned is that St. Louis E-5 lost their 1971 Seagrave in a huge 5alarm+ fire on April 2, 1976. This was the Heyday Building fire,which spread over an 8-block area.
Afterwards, a 1976 ALF Century was purchased on an "emergency basis", which was the 1 being prepared in the shop pic. This may account for the apparatus reassignments encountered by Mr. Troxel. This info is from an excellent article and pics submitted by the Box 8 Club for the Spring 1976 issue of "TURN OUT" (IFBA mag)
[quote name='Dr. Stinebaugh' post='134809' date='Jul 29 2007, 19:10 ']One thing I have not seen mentioned is that St. Louis E-5 lost their 1971 Seagrave in a huge 5alarm+ fire on April 2, 1976. This was the Heyday Building fire,which spread over an 8-block area.
Afterwards, a 1976 ALF Century was purchased on an "emergency basis", which was the 1 being prepared in the shop pic. This may account for the apparatus reassignments encountered by Mr. Troxel. This info is from an excellent article and pics submitted by the Box 8 Club for the Spring 1976 issue of "TURN OUT" (IFBA mag)[/quote] Thanks for the info Dr. Stinebaugh. Does that mean that there was a third 1971 Seagrave pumper? Duane got photos of Engine 9 & Engine 25 in 1971 Seagrave pumpers. The new "emergency purchase" ALF engine was lettered for "Engine 2" so they must have done some switching around. Engine 5 was using Hose 5 when Duane visited in September of 1976.
I was able to get out and shoot several trucks today. I'd like to thank all the departments I stopped by, everywhere I went everyone was as friendly as can be. My first stop was by Metro West station 4 to get their new rescue engine.
Metro West Pumper/Rescue 3344 2007 Spartan/Rosenbaur *I wasnt able to get a great angle with the station being on a major road. I didnt want to go into traffic.
rear view
With my luck, as I finished taking pics, they get dispatched to a sick case on the next street over.
The driver forgot to put down the rollup door and move the wheel stop before trying to respond. After a mintue of the truck trying to make it over the stop. The driver realized something wasnt right. He got out, closed the door and loaded the stop. Off they went.
Here is one more shot. This is a new style LED PowerArc.
Next I stopped by Metro West station 5. The mechanic was here looking at the rigs. He was more than happy to move them around.
Metro West FPD
Pumper/rescue/tanker 3354 1997 Spartan Gladiator/Ferrara *This unit was deployed to the gulf coast after Katrina.
rear view
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