St. Louis question

[firescooby]

I cannot speak to St. Louis either, as I have not been there since the first quints were new.  There are places where quints are ideal and places where they are not.  In my old FD, we ran a 100' platform quint as our truck company since 1995.  We cover an area that is small but busy, responding to over 7000 incidents in 2016 from two stations.  Truck 1 occasionally is the only rig available for a structure fire and being a quint is a necessity in those cases.  Having it's own pump and supply hose make it self-sufficient on any incident.  Current plans call for the addition of a third station and another company, a 75' quint, which will be a great asset in both pumping and aerial abilities.

 

I live in a county that is covered by a 14 station career FD with two truck companies.  One is a 100' TDA and the other is a 75' quint.  There are three cities in the county with their own FD's, including 4 aerial apparatus, all quints, including a 105' platform, a 105' stick and two 75' sticks.  The County FD, wishing to add aerial capabilities to the fleet, have assigned 75' quints to three engine companies.  This has been going on since 1994 and has worked out well for them.

 

I don't believe that either FD will ever go TQC, but quints have found their place here and they will stay.

I agree Dave. I think one issue is EMS response. All of our 12 ladder companies run Quints. The engines are first out on med calls of course, so if we had a true truck, we'd be twiddling our thumbs for a while.

 

No pump trucks are rare in the South unless it's Atlanta or a handful of others.