Kansas City area fire apparatus

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Rescue 1, 9 & 31 remains the 3 Rescues for the city.



Rescue 7 - became Pumper 28. When P28 was reorganized they were orginally issued a Reserve Pumper which had spent time at both Pumpers 10 & 25. Later P28 had a E\-One Typhoon Pumper with hydraulic ladders (first and last rig with hydraulic ladders for the KCFD) purchased for them. I think theres a pic that Rick had taken of it at the Fire Academy. It now belongs to the Fire Academy as Pumper 51. Most of the equipment Rescue 7 had on it remained on P28 (extrication & RIT equipment). P28 and P44 (ex Q44) were the only 2 Pumpers that were RIT capable, on top of all Truck & Rescue Co's. A couple years ago FH28 was remodeled at that time is when R7 was closed and turned into P28, Q28 was closed and turned into T15 out of 30s until the new 36s was built. P28 was placed at FH41 with Q41 until their house was completed. Both P28 & T15 benefited from the moves to their temporary houses. Those 2 companies caught a lot of fire that they normally would not have gotten. At this time Pumper 28 is also in charge of Brush 28.



Rescue 11 - I believe their manpower was distributed, nothing was reorganized with them.



Rescue 12 - went into Haz-Mat to add more manpower. I believe the guys rotate every other month for who rides Pumper 71 & who rides Support 71. In the early stages of FH27 opening (Car 110 (now C302, P71, Support 71 & Utility 71) when P71 had a run in their first due whether Fire (still alarm) or EMS related another Pumper normally P24 if in service would also make the alarm. I believe they did this due to the lack of manpower Haz-mat had at the early stages of FH27 reopening. So if they were on a alarm and a Haz-Mat alarm came in they could leave and the other Pumper would stick around and handle it. If I remember correctly Support 71 was cross staffed by P71 & Utility 71 when they first moved in to FH27. Utility 71 was a F450 with a Utility body, and then later a GMC (flat face, not sure cab style) with a Hackney body it ran CO checks and Natural Gas Odors Inside with most of the citys first due Pumpers back in the day. They still have Utility 71 (the GMC) that is loaded with Absorbent. In present time P71 is still apart of Haz-mat but its shown as a normal Pumper just like any other throughout the city. There is no more sending 2 Pumpers on a still alarm in their first due.



Rescue 16 - became Truck 4 out of FH3



Hope this helps. Rick can probably add to this or make corrections where needed.

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Thanks Eric for the info, I forgot some of this. Hope i am not aging to fast <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />.



Yep totally forgot Rescue 16 was used to reorganize Truck 4. Rescue 16 moved to New FH3 from FH16. Rescue 16 was one of three set up like a City Service Ladder Truck.



When Truck 4 was disbanded in 1979 it was answering from Fire House 7. Truck 4 and Pumper 7 were both disbanded together. Government Block grant was used to relocate FH7 keeping the number alive.



Eric is correct half of Rescue 12 became full time staffing for Pumper 71. Haz-Mat when opened in 1990 had five or six assigned. Back then it was three person Pumpers city wide. The Support was a lime green Betten Roll-up beverage truck that was donated to the fire department to organize HM71, it has a FAO like Air 1. Now there are eight assigned at HM71.



Rescue 11 and half of 12 was split to add add staffing to Rescue 1,9,31.



Rescue 7 became Pumper 28.



KCFD has done a lot of swapping over the years. Most of engine rigs assigned to the pumpers in 1975 had been reassigned to other pumpers by 1979. In part due to the Seagrave Quints and nine 1976 Mack MB's and the 1979 Ford C-8000 E-Ones.