St. Louis question

[TacSupport1]

After reading about how the learning curve (change) was overcome and really ironed out well on the second generation quints, I got to thinking about how it's been a full generation of ff s that only know operating with the quints. So I'm curious about how well going back to pumpers and sticks have worked for them , was this a huge change operationally? .

 

Here's an article I dug up:

 

​http://www.fireapparatusmagazine.com/art...tting.html