City Of Rochester, NY Fire Apparatus

[flashover71]

the story is back in the late 70's early 80's the fire department was facing decreasing budgets, so at the time fire chief Huther and executive deputy chief Graham had to figure out a way to keep stations open without laying off fire fighters so they looked into many options but none of the others were going to work, so they decided to consolidate all the engine and truck company that were paired together with a quint and midi pumper and it took a little over 9 years to fully transition from engine and truck companies to quint/midi companies the first was

e.19/t.11- q/m 1

e.20/t8 -q/m 2

e.8/t.7- q/m 3

e.6/t.4- q/m 4

e.18/t.5- q/m 5

e.2/t.6- q/m 6

e.9/t.9- q/m 7

e4/t.10- q/m 8

e1/t1- q/m 9

and they did it without laying off fire fighters or closing any stations