Straight from a Springfield guy:
They currently only run one light rescue out of their downtown station with an engine, ladder and chief's buggy. They just got the new KME quint which replaces a dry ladder on the east side. The engine currently stationed there will be replaced with a light rescue. The other outlying aerial is already a quint and is supposedly getting a light rescue to run with it in the near future. He has not been told yet how these light rescues will be manned.
The downtown truck (tower) will remain strictly a truck. Glad I qualified my prior comments as being not 100% verified!
The KME dealer for Illinois is based south and by all appearances is a pretty well run organization. I'm sure they'll take care of Springfield just fine.
They currently only run one light rescue out of their downtown station with an engine, ladder and chief's buggy. They just got the new KME quint which replaces a dry ladder on the east side. The engine currently stationed there will be replaced with a light rescue. The other outlying aerial is already a quint and is supposedly getting a light rescue to run with it in the near future. He has not been told yet how these light rescues will be manned.
The downtown truck (tower) will remain strictly a truck. Glad I qualified my prior comments as being not 100% verified!
The KME dealer for Illinois is based south and by all appearances is a pretty well run organization. I'm sure they'll take care of Springfield just fine.
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