Boston Fire Department

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Another thing to consider, as was stated in the article, “They make up about 35 percent of our fleet and they’re taking up about 80 percent of our service and maintenance time,” Commissioner Joe Finn said. How do you put a price tag on or quantify that? Companies are left using spare apparatus that is sometimes close to 20 years old & is long past its useful life; Motor Squad is forced to deal with the aforementioned issues, meaning that preventative maintenance & other things get pushed to the back burner, which in turn leads to possible problems down the road. As FireMedic049 said, you can't just take one engine out & put a different one in.