Quote:Baltimore County just put three TDAs in service 500lb tip load and there pretty small. The FD wanted them modeled after a 20 yo Seagrave.
I'm not discounting what you are saying here, but rest comfortably assured; having been a resident of Baltimore County with more than just a passing knowledge of their apparatus procurement history and an employee of Fairfax County Fire and Rescue, Fairfax County will not follow in Baltimore County's footsteps.
Just remember, Fairfax County needs tiller ladder trucks to negotiate all those tight narrow city streets and alleys plaguing the placement of its current fleet of ladder trucks.