[quote name='Rescue131' date='31 December 2010 - 08:40 PM' timestamp='1293844821' post='417714']
I was a member at Woodlawn VFD when this Pirsch was bought from Trenton. The story at that time was that Baltimore Co was going to use this rig to replace the 1972 ALF Aero Chief at the Westview Station #13. I believe it was also originally numbered as T-13. There were supposedly safety concerns among the career firefighters mostly because the Trenton Pirsch did not have any sort of outriggers or jacks. (many TDA of this era were designed to be "jackknifted" for aerial operations) The Pirsch was then placed into reserve statyus and used at Westview until the Aero Chief was rebuilt with a 100' ladder and returned to service.
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We are both kinda right. Spoke with Wayne Thayer said they were given originally RT 64 old Truck 5 when the aero-chief went out for rehab. That truck (rt 64) was sent out for repaint 13 ran the "pride of trenton" till it was back. RT 64 was lettered 13 Truck 85 never was.
I was a member at Woodlawn VFD when this Pirsch was bought from Trenton. The story at that time was that Baltimore Co was going to use this rig to replace the 1972 ALF Aero Chief at the Westview Station #13. I believe it was also originally numbered as T-13. There were supposedly safety concerns among the career firefighters mostly because the Trenton Pirsch did not have any sort of outriggers or jacks. (many TDA of this era were designed to be "jackknifted" for aerial operations) The Pirsch was then placed into reserve statyus and used at Westview until the Aero Chief was rebuilt with a 100' ladder and returned to service.
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We are both kinda right. Spoke with Wayne Thayer said they were given originally RT 64 old Truck 5 when the aero-chief went out for rehab. That truck (rt 64) was sent out for repaint 13 ran the "pride of trenton" till it was back. RT 64 was lettered 13 Truck 85 never was.
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