FDIC 2013 - From the show floor

[Juice]

A stout front bumper leads the way for this E-One rear mount for the Plainfield Fire Territory.

 

Plainfield, IN

Ladder 121

2013 E-One Cyclone II 100' RM tower ladder

Cummins ISX12 (500 HP)

E-One SO 137535

 

 

 

Little side info on this rig, it's already in service, and has been for a few months.  It replaces the "idea" of a heavy rescue and a ladder truck.  Physically, it only replaces a ladder truck, as they kept the heavy rescue as a spare.

 

At roughly 3PM on Saturday, about an hour after the show was over, Plainfield received a call for multiple apartments on fire at a complex, I've seen photos, and it was a BIG fire, and Plainfield is not very far from Indianapolis at all.  Any other day of the week for it to happen, this rig would have been there and in service.  But, isn't that normally how it goes? The only other ladder in PFT's fleet is a 75' E\-One, they did have mutual aide, however.

 

Trav!