Prince George's County MD

[Guest]

[quote name='Pete Muller' post='154743' date='Oct 9 2007, 12:26 ']The ALF that was assigned to Station 44 was a county owned reserve pumper. It was purchased used from Cambridge, Maryland and went directly to the reserve fleet. It was on the county roster as Reserve Engine 5. When I was a Battalion Chief in the 4th Battalion each battalion had one assigned reserve pumper. They were maintained by one station and could be used by any station that needed them. If you have older rosters of PG County apparatus you would only see apparatus owned or purchased for the individual departments. Station 44 had a 1960 Ford C/American LaFrance 750 gpm/300 gwt pumper that ran until they purchased the 1978 Mack MB/Pierce Pumper. If you can get a copy of the PG County history book "Triumph & Tradition" on page 174 it shows station 44 with the reserve engine. Also a listing of the county reserve engines at the time is included in the back of the book.[/quote]













Pete,

I have that book. Are you talking about Chillum's Ford/ALF?? I dont remember it being a reserve, maybe after The Mack went in service. I dont have my book with me at this time, could you post a pic of it?? I do have a pic of the Ford/ALF that Chillum had, and it had a Chillum-Adelphi seal on it. I'm not trying to start anything, I just dont remember it. I thought I knew all about 34/44!! <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />