FLORIDA RIGS

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1989 Young Crusader II 1250-750 Pumper Engine 3.



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Coral Gables (3) and Palm Beach County, FL (14) also had Young Crusader II pumpers. They did not have the bus doors. The original plan that went along with the kickbacks was that the Palm Beach County pumpers would be retrofitted with closed in jump seats a few years after their purchase. Unfortunately, the company went belly up shortly after they got theirs.



There was also another department somewhere in the Florida Keys that had one but I never saw it or photographed it.



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Monroe County, FL the "Keys" had 3 and all were still in service as front line engines in 2005 but were since replaced, Station assingments as follows: Sta. 13 Monroe County Fire Rescue/ Big Pine Key Vol. FR E-13, Sta. 17 Monroe County Fire Rescue/ Ex Conch Key Vol. FR E-17, and Islamorada Fire Rescue Sta. 20 or 22.



All 3 engines were triplets from what I was told and all had 1250 pumps and 1,000 gal water with faom cells, these trucks all had 6 man cab open jump seats, over the years to meet the needs for each rigs first due they were overhauled and added extra compartmant doors on the rear to hold extrication tools and moved the ladder off the side and placed over the hose bed so extra compartments for the ALS EMS gear could be on the trucks.



I had the joy of working on Engine 13 and man, those engines could turn circles around a car, they were some of the smalled wheel based engines most of us had ever seen.



BTW: There is a really good picture of Engine 13 as Engine 30 before the county re-numbered the apparatus, In the Young Apparatus Section, maybe someone could repost the image !