Winsted Engine 3 with also at the main station today, the lighting was really good (prob. should have brought the squad out back here) so I shot it again.
They share the Holabird Ave station with Engine 4 that is just several blocks from the main station, but on the other side of a bridge that crosses the Farmington River and up on a hill. Engine 1 is across yet another bridge and up hill from Main St. across the Mad River Winsted was wiped out by the flooding of the [url="http://www.cslib.org/flood1955.htm"]Mad River in October of 1955[/url].
Specs off their [url="http://www.winstedfire.org/apparatus.html"]website[/url]:
2006 HME/Smeal
Niagara Engine Company Three is housed at Station 3 on Holabird Avenue
2006 HME/Smeal 1864 series 6 person cab
Hale 1500 gpm single stage pumper
1000 gallon water tank
24 ft ground/12 ft roof ladders
300 gpm portable pump
500 ft 1 3/4" hose
400 ft 2 1/2" hose
1200 ft 5" supply hose
booster line
500 gpm Blue Blitz ground monitor
![[Image: IMG0938-L.jpg]](http://ruralamericanimages.smugmug.com/Fire-Service-Photography-1/2011/Winsted-Squad-5Station-Visit/i-NPMncMf/2/L/IMG0938-L.jpg)
They share the Holabird Ave station with Engine 4 that is just several blocks from the main station, but on the other side of a bridge that crosses the Farmington River and up on a hill. Engine 1 is across yet another bridge and up hill from Main St. across the Mad River Winsted was wiped out by the flooding of the [url="http://www.cslib.org/flood1955.htm"]Mad River in October of 1955[/url].
Specs off their [url="http://www.winstedfire.org/apparatus.html"]website[/url]:
2006 HME/Smeal
Niagara Engine Company Three is housed at Station 3 on Holabird Avenue
2006 HME/Smeal 1864 series 6 person cab
Hale 1500 gpm single stage pumper
1000 gallon water tank
24 ft ground/12 ft roof ladders
300 gpm portable pump
500 ft 1 3/4" hose
400 ft 2 1/2" hose
1200 ft 5" supply hose
booster line
500 gpm Blue Blitz ground monitor
![[Image: IMG0938-L.jpg]](http://ruralamericanimages.smugmug.com/Fire-Service-Photography-1/2011/Winsted-Squad-5Station-Visit/i-NPMncMf/2/L/IMG0938-L.jpg)
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Ed Harvey
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"In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable." -Dwight D. Eisenhower
All fires will go out; and all bleeding will stop - eventually.
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