FLORIDA RIGS

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Hillsborough County has been getting a steady stream of new rigs, in a new scheme of black over lime. 

 

Quints 9, 12, and 39 (coming) look to be E-One Typhoon industrial pumpers (or high volume anyway) with 50' Telebooms. These replace regular engines and are a first for HCFR. 

 

Engines 6 and 32 seem to have rescue-style Typhoon pumpers with added compartments, and just this weekend a friend who works for HCFR sent me a picture of the new Engine 1, which also looks high-volume (foam, maybe?), but no teleboom. Station 1 covers industrial parts of South-Central unincorporated County.

 

Truck 6 got a new E-One tower not too long ago, in old white over lime, and several new ambulances are in the works at Horton, a switch from International to Freightliner cabs. I heard HCFR may be switching again to Kenworth ambo chassis, but I can't remember where I heard that chatter. 

 

The HCFR page on Facebook is good about covering these things.

 

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Alex, after examining photos of Engine 9's previous rig, this rig, E1, looks like the old E9 with the Snozzle boom removed and repainted into the new livery.