[quote name='tcosgrovejones' post='148196' date='Sep 13 2007, 14:22 ']Thats the old one. The motor is blown in it <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hysterical.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />
[quote name='ResQguy' post='148380' date='Sep 13 2007, 20:00 ']WAS blown in it. It has a new motor as of yesterday, runs like a top.[/quote]
Does that mean they have 2 command units running around or 1 in service and the other a spare? Haven't heard much of the old one except its been around.
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[quote name='Lime Guy' post='148411' date='Sep 14 2007, 07:16 ']I have seen the old one used more for events and EMS[/quote]
Speaking of events, don't forget the 4th Annual Antique Fire Apparatus Show, Sunday, September 16, 2007, 0930 to 1400 on the grounds of the Armed Forces Retirement Home at Rock Creek Church Rd. and Upshur St. NW., Washington DC (west of Catholic University).
I’d like to continue with the ladder truck chronology from where we left off……
Ladder truck purchases were on a brief hiatus following the 2000 acquisitions while the department concentrated on its massive upgrading of the pumper fleet. Thirty-eight wagons came in between 2000 and 2003 from E\-One, Pierce, and Seagrave. In 2001, the DCFD put money into refurbishing S-381, the 1989 135’ ladder truck. July 28, 2007 photo, accident at 7th & Independence Ave SW, T-10 with A-13
E\-One got the refurbishing job for $316,000 (E\-One #122395). Originally assigned to Truck 6 in 1989, it shifted to Truck 3 in 1997 and went to Truck 10 after the rebuild in 2001. It remains there today. June 2007 photo, smoke in the Capitol
At the same time the 135’ truck was under renovation, Trucks 11 and 13, the 1993 Simon-Duplex/ LTI tillers (S-382 and S-383) were taken out of service and eventually sent to American LaFrance. They were completely rebuilt and put back into service sporting ALF Eagle tractors in 2003 (ALF #MO9997 and MO9998). The renovation cost $416,000 per rig. T-12 got old T-11, and T-08 got old T-13. Photo shows Truck 12 (S-382, xT-11) on the fireground in July 2007.
The DCFD put three more Seagrave TT06DA tillered trucks on the street in 2003; shop serials S-398, 399, and 302. The cost was approximately $600,000 per apparatus. The trucks were the standard DC spec 250-lb. aerial, 40’ pre-piped waterway, open ladder banks, etc., and were assigned to Truck Companies 6, 9, and 17. The trucks were designed for speed of use. A distinguishing feature from the 2000 models was the addition of another roll up door. The trailers now had two roll up doors on either side. They would be the last roll ups! Image is T-06 (S-398, Seagrave 76352) on the fireground, January 2007.
One of the DCFD traditions is maintaining a Water Tower company, which ran from Truck 3’s quarters until 1952. In 1972, T-03 was assigned a Sutphen tower that ran all working fires in an extended area, and all 2nd Alarms citywide. Tower duties eventually transferred to the other end of the Sixth Battalion (T-10 in 1976), but in 2003 returned to Truck 3 when the department took delivery on a 95’ Aerialscope. The $847,000 apparatus (Seagrave #74312) was given shop serial S-301 and is Tower Co. 3’s current apparatus. March 10, 2007 photo responding from quarters, 1018 13th St. NW
One of the DCFD idiosyncrasies was the manor in which Truck 3 was dispatched: on most alarms the dispatcher would say “Truck 3 respond…”, but when it was dispatched on a Special or the 2nd Alarm, they would say, “Truck 3, the Water Tower, respond…” Today, it is simply Tower 3 on everything. Photo July 2007
09-17-2007, 07:59 PM (This post was last modified: 09-17-2007, 08:00 PM by resqguy.)
[quote name='JFong' post='148381' date='Sep 13 2007, 23:03 ']Does that mean they have 2 command units running around or 1 in service and the other a spare? Haven't heard much of the old one except its been around.[/quote]
The Pierce "Mobile Command Unit" is used by the Operations Division. The Freightliner formerly known as "Field Command Unit" is used by Special Ops.
The DCFD put three more Seagrave TT06DA tillered trucks on the street in 2003; shop serials S-398, 399, and 302. The cost was approximately $600,000 per apparatus. The trucks were the standard DC spec 250-lb. aerial, 40’ pre-piped waterway, open ladder banks, etc., and were assigned to Truck Companies 6, 9, and 17. The trucks were designed for speed of use. A distinguishing feature from the 2000 models was the addition of another roll up door. The trailers now had two roll up doors on either side. They would be the last roll ups! Image is T-06 (S-398, Seagrave 76352) on the fireground, January 2007.[/quote]
Any reason for doing away with roll ups period? Were they not licked by the FFs or was it a more practical sort of thing?
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