FYI --
My family has a home on Martha's Vineyard Isl, and so I'm pretty familiar with the place. There are six towns/six municipal fire departments on Martha's Vineyard Island plus a fire station at the airport that's manned by airport staff when needed, and a station at the state forest that is staffed (and equipped) seasonally.
The six towns have nine stations total and operate a very unique mix of old and new apparatus. All of the departments are all-volunteer, but every Sunday at 10am all the apparatus is pulled out, started up, and driven around during the island-wide fire "radio-check." If you can't make it on Sunday mornings, there are often firefighters hanging around the stations and in several communities full-time-paid ambulance crews also operates out of the fire station so you can usually get in and take a peek.
I wasn't able to make it out there this summer (no rest for the weary), but hopefully next season... I'm eager to see/photograph Tisbury's new Bronto skylift and Oak Bluffs' new Metz aerial (that replaced a beautiful 195os era open-cab Maxim)! Anyone happen to have any pictures?
My family has a home on Martha's Vineyard Isl, and so I'm pretty familiar with the place. There are six towns/six municipal fire departments on Martha's Vineyard Island plus a fire station at the airport that's manned by airport staff when needed, and a station at the state forest that is staffed (and equipped) seasonally.
The six towns have nine stations total and operate a very unique mix of old and new apparatus. All of the departments are all-volunteer, but every Sunday at 10am all the apparatus is pulled out, started up, and driven around during the island-wide fire "radio-check." If you can't make it on Sunday mornings, there are often firefighters hanging around the stations and in several communities full-time-paid ambulance crews also operates out of the fire station so you can usually get in and take a peek.
I wasn't able to make it out there this summer (no rest for the weary), but hopefully next season... I'm eager to see/photograph Tisbury's new Bronto skylift and Oak Bluffs' new Metz aerial (that replaced a beautiful 195os era open-cab Maxim)! Anyone happen to have any pictures?
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