Houston Fire Department Apparatus

[Ladder 68]

Correct...Houston has been buying Ferrara apparatus for a number of years. As explained to me by the District Chief over fleet operations a lot of the stations were expressing how the previous E\-One aerials were missed given their wider and taller ladders. These were purchased to evaluate how the Pierce aluminum aerials would work out.



I can say, from driving one of them every day, it is a good apparatus. The desired goal of a more "fire fighter friendly" aerial has been achieved as the dimensions of these make climbing and working off of it easier and more efficient that our previous Smeal aerial.



Like any apparatus there are always things you would like different, or moved here, or done like this, but all in all these are good rigs that the apparatus committee did a good job on.