[quote name='Aaronw' timestamp='1329786435' post='475459']
Neat, I can remember seeing this or a similar one in the early 90s. Many departments were using older reserve rigs for wildland use on strike teams. I really wish I'd been more into photographing rigs early in my career. I got to see some neat old trucks in their last years of service before everyone bought purpose designed type 3 engines in the mid to late 90s.
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That is pretty cool, every once and a while here in R3 you find some classics operating on large incidents, but it is becoming increasingly rare. We don't have the purpose designed type 3's like R5, but most departments are operating reserve apparatus from the early to mid 90's. I've still noticed in the pacific northwest region some older apparatus though, and as dry as things are here in AZ, we may see some out and about this summer!
Neat, I can remember seeing this or a similar one in the early 90s. Many departments were using older reserve rigs for wildland use on strike teams. I really wish I'd been more into photographing rigs early in my career. I got to see some neat old trucks in their last years of service before everyone bought purpose designed type 3 engines in the mid to late 90s.
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That is pretty cool, every once and a while here in R3 you find some classics operating on large incidents, but it is becoming increasingly rare. We don't have the purpose designed type 3's like R5, but most departments are operating reserve apparatus from the early to mid 90's. I've still noticed in the pacific northwest region some older apparatus though, and as dry as things are here in AZ, we may see some out and about this summer!
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