Kansas City area fire apparatus

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I was looking at the official Lawrence Fire Department website and the pics of the apparatus, and that particular shade of green on the older rigs is horrible! The new red apparatus look so much better. Actually, the older rigs, if painted red, wouldn't look too bad.



What's the reason that they're going from 3 quints down to 2? Cost savings or just no need for a third quint?

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Hey Jeff,



Kind of interesting. I wish it was to get out of the Hybrid Quint concept, miss the old LFD when it was four pumps, two squads, and a dry truck. They had some money left from the sales tax that was used to purchase the entire current frontline fleet except Quint 3. They are also in need of a new Haz-Mat unit. So they are purchasing a combine Haz-Mat Engine. It won't be small from what I have been told. Unknown if they will keep the Hackney that servers as Haz-Mat 4.



Rick