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I am sure you probably knew this and just didn't add it, but the 1991 Sutphen tower is X-Rohrerstown, Lancaster County, Pa... I always called it the Field Truck because you need a football field to turn it around LOL. It came into Columbia the one time for a working fire, seeing the streets in Columbia and how tight they are I probably don't have to explain the trouble they had putting it anywhere close to the scene.
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Man I wish I would have seen this thread sooner! Very nice photos Dave!
Fritz,
Yeah the old Rohrerstown truck was, well let's just say a pain-in-the-butt to turn. You really had to set up your turns ahead of time to make them. I can remember riding to many fires, some of them in Columbia, in that back of that thing. It got so hot sitting next to the motor you'd be sweating even in the dead of Winter. If we had 6 on the crew, the 4 guys in the back had to interlock their knees because it was so cramped.
A little more history on this tower, it was purchased by Rohrerstown in 1998. Officially went in-service for mutual aid responses on January, 1st 1999. It came from Kansas City, MO where is served as Tower 3 and was purchased from Northeast Fire Apparatus. It was slime lime when it was delivered and was repainted black over red. Unless Neshannock repainted under the body, you can still see some lime paint showing through. In Kansas City, this truck was used to save a fire fighter from a rooftop when there was a collapse of the trusses that compromised his egress point.
Keep the photos coming!
I am sure you probably knew this and just didn't add it, but the 1991 Sutphen tower is X-Rohrerstown, Lancaster County, Pa... I always called it the Field Truck because you need a football field to turn it around LOL. It came into Columbia the one time for a working fire, seeing the streets in Columbia and how tight they are I probably don't have to explain the trouble they had putting it anywhere close to the scene.
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Man I wish I would have seen this thread sooner! Very nice photos Dave!
Fritz,
Yeah the old Rohrerstown truck was, well let's just say a pain-in-the-butt to turn. You really had to set up your turns ahead of time to make them. I can remember riding to many fires, some of them in Columbia, in that back of that thing. It got so hot sitting next to the motor you'd be sweating even in the dead of Winter. If we had 6 on the crew, the 4 guys in the back had to interlock their knees because it was so cramped.
A little more history on this tower, it was purchased by Rohrerstown in 1998. Officially went in-service for mutual aid responses on January, 1st 1999. It came from Kansas City, MO where is served as Tower 3 and was purchased from Northeast Fire Apparatus. It was slime lime when it was delivered and was repainted black over red. Unless Neshannock repainted under the body, you can still see some lime paint showing through. In Kansas City, this truck was used to save a fire fighter from a rooftop when there was a collapse of the trusses that compromised his egress point.
Keep the photos coming!
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