San Diego, CA (+ metro area)

[chcmedic93]

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While I don't think that this is still true but I do know that until sometime in the early to mid 2000's the San Diego Fire Department did have three fire stations that had Truck (Ladder) companies that were what some departments call "jump" companies. Jump company stations generally speaking have one crew that switch apparatus depending on the nature of the call or alarm. The three jump stations were stations 5, 41 and 43 and they each had an Aerial Truck company (41 and 43 had Tower Ladders) and if they were needed the Engine crew's from those stations would "jump" on the Truck and repond with their Truck instead of their Engine company. I don't believe that those stations still run "jump" Truck companies but I could still be wrong.

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The SDFD no longer operates truck companies at Stations 5, 41, or 43.



In the early 90's the department experimented with squads. At some double company stations they would take one person off the engine and one off the truck and jump in a Suburban to run medical aids. It didn't last long.