Our E\-One's are 11'4" at delivery. My current piece had a channel cut into the roof of the cab & low profile tires put on it to get it down to 10'11" so that we would fit under various bridges on Soldiers Field Road & Storrow Drive. Ladder 15 received the same I believe. Even with that we don't fit into Ladder 25's quarters (the bay door garage door opener gets in the way) & are forced to park next door on McKenna Way when covering. I honestly don't think that Ladder 16 will fit in there even WITH new tires and a lowered suspension. This is going to start becoming a bigger issue because trucks aren't getting smaller & our old houses (E30/L25, built in 1898) aren't getting any larger. There are similar issues at E29/L11, E17/L7, E2/L19, E33/L15, E24/L23, E18/L6 & E49 due to the age of the houses (the most recent of those firehouses was built in 1932, 82 years ago!). Some new or significantly renovated firehouses have to be built. Only 6 new firehouse have built in the past 40 years & the last firehouse the city built was in 1984 (The Big House was built for the city by a developer in 1989 in exchange for the land where the old house sat on Oliver St). There's a lot of positive changes coming in the BFD & I hope updated quarters are among them!
FF Sean 'Skip' Olson
Boston Fire, Ladder 14
In Memory:
FR David A. Middleton E51, LODD, Box 5247, 05/28/07
FR Paul J. Cahill E30 & FR Warren J. Payne L25, LODD, Box 4-281, 08/29/07
FLT Kevin Kelley L26, LODD, 01/09/09
FLT Edward J. Walsh E33 & FR Michael Kennedy L15, LODD, Box 9-1579, 03/26/14.
Boston Fire, Ladder 14
In Memory:
FR David A. Middleton E51, LODD, Box 5247, 05/28/07
FR Paul J. Cahill E30 & FR Warren J. Payne L25, LODD, Box 4-281, 08/29/07
FLT Kevin Kelley L26, LODD, 01/09/09
FLT Edward J. Walsh E33 & FR Michael Kennedy L15, LODD, Box 9-1579, 03/26/14.