Fairfax County VA

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[quote name='Lime Guy' post='87516' date='Mar 16 2007, 20:07 ']A new truck for the fire academy seems wasteful.[/quote]



Having just spent three years in the Academy as an instructor, who's specialty was teaching Driver/Pump Operator classes, and I can not tell you HOW HARD we tried to get a brand new pumper assigned to the Academy. Using hand-me-down's may seem fiscally responsible, but how am I supposed to truly prepare the recruit firefighter how to use a rig when I can't get anything that closely resembles their daily ride?



Last I heard, our academy may be getting a 1997 Quantum assigned to it near the end of this year, but that's still waiting to be confirmed.



Remember Loudoun also purchased an Academy pumper before it was reassigned into the field.