Quote:Although not a fire truck, this hazardous materials truck is run by the Michigan State Police at the Police Academy in Lansing. I took my hazmat technician training here, and this truck was there the entire time. It is a 2005 Spartan/Spencer, and is one of several identical that were purchased, and placed in service around the state with various fire departments. The City of Lansing FD operates one of them as its prime hazmat squad.
Great pic of the elusive MSP Regional Response Team Network truck, the RRTN logo is on the box. This one and the one assigned to the Berrien County Sheriff are the only one's not assigned to fire departments. This is the only one that is not black over red.
18 of them were purchased for use throughout the state back in 2005 post 9/11 major incident response concerns. None have ever been called up for a type of major incident that they were purchased and envisioned for, which is a very good thing. I can say although not
really used for their intended purpose per say, the state has gotten their money out of them.
They are based on Oct of 2005 produced Spartan Advantage Extended MFD 20” Raised Roof Cabs, with Cummins ISL 370HP engines and Spencer 18’ NWI (Non-Walk-In) Rescue bodies 675’ Cu Ft of Storage. Basic outfitting of the units from Spencer included the following:
Whelen LED
ROM Painted Roll-Up Doors
ROM LED Compartment Lights
Smart Power 15KW Generator
Wil-Burt Night Scan Powerlite Light Tower
Command Center with desk
refrigerator
marker board
notebook storage
FRC Optimum Tri-Pod Lights
Hannay Electric Cord Reels
RV Awnings
Approx Cost $235,00.00 Each
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Upon delivery they were assigned to the following departments:
Clinton twp FD - Macomb County - Rescue #5
Sterling Heights - Macomb County - Rescue #5 - RRN #25
Warren - Macomb County - Rescue #6
Troy - Oakland County - Special Response Unit #4
Grand Rapids - Kent County - RTN-61
Ann Arbor - Washtenaw County - Haz-Mat #1
Escanaba - Delta County - (Upper Peninsula)
Bay City - Bay County
Lansing - Ingham County - Squad 46
Detroit - Wayne County - (Never have been able to confirm this one)
Traverse City - Grand Traverse County -
Berrien County Sheriff - Berrien County - Haz-Mat #098
(Above lettered Berrien County Sheriff Hazerdous Materials Response Team with Sheriff door shield)
Monroe - Monroe County
Muskegon - Muskegon County
Battle Creek - Calhoun County -
Western Wayne County Haz Mat Team - Wayne County - Rotates between several departments
MSP / MI Urban Search and Rescue Team
St Clair County (Pt Huron Twp FD) - St Clair County - Lettered Saint Clair County Hazardous Operations Team - Hazmat #24
Lettering and graphics vary from full blown department lettering with no ID of RRTN, to minimal department name with RRTN lettering.
These were envisioned to be 25 year trucks, given to departments that agreed to staff with a full 4-6 man team ready within 12 hours of a call up by the State of Michigan. The thought was to give them to departments and let them run them from time to time and maintain them so crews were familiar with them. Some departments bought into this and some of these rigs are practically brand new all these years later. Others well lets just say they sidelined front line rigs and ran these in their place, I can verify that one rig had 5,000 miles on it within a year. This racked up in a city that is only about 20 square miles.
Most of the rigs ended up in Metro Detroit and the west side of the state which is natural considering the population base. The perplexing thing is the Clinton Twp, Warren, Sterling Heights and Troy rigs are within minutes of each other, yes big cities yes very congested I live in Sterling Heights so I know all about it, but I still don't get the positioning even after talking to people from the state. Troy is the only rig assigned to a department that is volunteer staffed, except for a driver at each station.
The downriver area which is chock full of petro chemical and oil refineries esentially have two rigs and that is if you consider the Western Wayne County rig & Monroe County rig neither of which are anywhere near down river.
Oh well hope that informs everyone of a unique group of rig's in the state of Michigan.
Kris
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