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Been busy but sitting here updating iOS5 on my iDevices so some random info to the conversation. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
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I think everyone means the midship towers - the rearmounts are here to stay. I heard they took the new TL36 to FS8 and I heard it didn't fit so much, but that was true firehouse kitchen talk so take it for what it's worth. Not that Fairfax has ever bought a TL that didn't fit somewhere, that's how your station had a tower for a time, right Sr?
FS2 is getting a new canteen, due soon, in black over red. They are working on a new engine to put frontline and take the ALF and have it replace the shaggin wagon as E402B. As much as they love the Lance (and it is a nice small rig to drive) it is 22 years old and the county shops will not fix anything major on it anymore - which I understand at that point. There are some internal politics going on at 2 over timing, etc., but I would expect to see an order soon from them on that.
I heard the same story on the 4 new engines - 18, 21, 23, 29. 24's was, I thought, part of the 5 rig order that originally went to 7, 25, 26, 36 and 41. The rig for 41 was a filler until the 4 CAFS rigs came on line and when 41 got it's red top that rig was lettered for Woodlawn and sent to 24. And of course we know the academy's rig is still E401.
On the Bravo designator, as couple of things everyone forgets is, there is an A, and B does not mean volunteer. The A exist, it's just assumed as the numbered unit. So E428 is really E428A (and yes if I dig I'll find the documentation on that), E413A, etc. The next rig of a type out of a station is the B unit, but that doesn't mean its volunteer staffed....it's just the second out of the house. For us that normally does mean volunteer staffed - but there was talk at one time of taking one or more of the 4 career ambulances OOS and putting a second ALS unit at a couple of stations - so if 29 for example was selected for that the second unit would be M429B....but it would be career staffed.
Old E421B was bought by the Red Lodge Fire Rescue Department, Red Lodge, MT as a second out rig for them. It has been cleaned up and is being lettered and stocked as E73. I'm friends with the chief there (how they found out about it) and when he sends me a pic of it lettered I'll post it here.
Oh and 13 is going to buy a new ambulance - as soon as I get off my arse and get the process started..........
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Chief, my typo, I did mean the mid-mount towers.
Been busy but sitting here updating iOS5 on my iDevices so some random info to the conversation. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' />I think everyone means the midship towers - the rearmounts are here to stay. I heard they took the new TL36 to FS8 and I heard it didn't fit so much, but that was true firehouse kitchen talk so take it for what it's worth. Not that Fairfax has ever bought a TL that didn't fit somewhere, that's how your station had a tower for a time, right Sr?
FS2 is getting a new canteen, due soon, in black over red. They are working on a new engine to put frontline and take the ALF and have it replace the shaggin wagon as E402B. As much as they love the Lance (and it is a nice small rig to drive) it is 22 years old and the county shops will not fix anything major on it anymore - which I understand at that point. There are some internal politics going on at 2 over timing, etc., but I would expect to see an order soon from them on that.
I heard the same story on the 4 new engines - 18, 21, 23, 29. 24's was, I thought, part of the 5 rig order that originally went to 7, 25, 26, 36 and 41. The rig for 41 was a filler until the 4 CAFS rigs came on line and when 41 got it's red top that rig was lettered for Woodlawn and sent to 24. And of course we know the academy's rig is still E401.
On the Bravo designator, as couple of things everyone forgets is, there is an A, and B does not mean volunteer. The A exist, it's just assumed as the numbered unit. So E428 is really E428A (and yes if I dig I'll find the documentation on that), E413A, etc. The next rig of a type out of a station is the B unit, but that doesn't mean its volunteer staffed....it's just the second out of the house. For us that normally does mean volunteer staffed - but there was talk at one time of taking one or more of the 4 career ambulances OOS and putting a second ALS unit at a couple of stations - so if 29 for example was selected for that the second unit would be M429B....but it would be career staffed.
Old E421B was bought by the Red Lodge Fire Rescue Department, Red Lodge, MT as a second out rig for them. It has been cleaned up and is being lettered and stocked as E73. I'm friends with the chief there (how they found out about it) and when he sends me a pic of it lettered I'll post it here.
Oh and 13 is going to buy a new ambulance - as soon as I get off my arse and get the process started..........
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Chief, my typo, I did mean the mid-mount towers.
Dave McClung
Arden Hills, Minnesota but....
my heart is also back in Northern VA, especially Alexandria.
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Arden Hills, Minnesota but....
my heart is also back in Northern VA, especially Alexandria.
All pictures are taken by me and subject to copyright.
No picture taken by me may be copied or linked without my
express permission.
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