Outer Banks, North Carolina - Department profiles

[mnsand]

[quote name='Roto-Ray' date='22 August 2010 - 06:14 PM' timestamp='1282514061' post='398557']

First, I think the warning light placement on the tanker's grill is bit odd, but to each their own.



Second, notice the two small maltese crosses with badge numbers on the fender. These are a carry-over from Chesapeake FD, and represent the badge numbers of Firefighters Frank Young and John Hudgins, who were both killed at the Advance Auto Parts fire in March 1996. Frank was a founding member of TFPA (Tidewater Fire Photographers Association). Interestingly, the current president of TFPA is a member at Knott's Island. Our own John Friis, Fire175, is a life member of TFPA and can probably shed more light on this for us.



Thanks for the wonderful photos thus far, Mike.

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Taylor,



Agree....the light placement is interesting.



Here is something else that I either just noticed this year or did not see before. The state inspections stickers, normally found in the front windshields, are in a variety of "odd" places to me on a variety of the apparatus (outside on the doors). For example, you really notice it on the Tanker from Knotts Island as well as the other Knotts Island pieces. Same with Roanoke Island.



I don't think it does much to dress up the trucks.



I wonder if that is a newer requirement.



Mike Sanders

Winchester, VA