[quote name='K0OKY' post='79575' date='Feb 21 2007, 20:08 ']Didn't that happen in the 80s (+/-) with an E\-One aerial? I remember a fire school instructor telling us about it in the early 90s, how Boston had the only 96 ft aerial in existance (because of the cutting). Never saw a picture, and only heard that story the one time, but it makes me curious.[/quote]
That was an issue of Boston using equipment the way they always did. The new E-Ones had aluminum aerials, where everthing modern before it was steel. Boston was known for agressively using the aerials to vent buildings, going through a window and up through the roof. They did this with one of the E-Ones, and burnt/melted a 4 foot section off of the end. Training had to inservice everyone about the limitations of the new aerials, and E\-One replaced the last fly, so there was never really a 96 foot aerial. The aerial was never cut, and it wasn't the result of a malfunction.
That was an issue of Boston using equipment the way they always did. The new E-Ones had aluminum aerials, where everthing modern before it was steel. Boston was known for agressively using the aerials to vent buildings, going through a window and up through the roof. They did this with one of the E-Ones, and burnt/melted a 4 foot section off of the end. Training had to inservice everyone about the limitations of the new aerials, and E\-One replaced the last fly, so there was never really a 96 foot aerial. The aerial was never cut, and it wasn't the result of a malfunction.