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[quote name='biotelbob' post='156006' date='Oct 14 2007, 21:14 ']Just to add to the answers you've received so far, here in Dallas the boosters were mainly sent on grass/brush fires with 2 men staffing it off the engine or truck at the station. They also made box alarms and were sometimes very helpful with their extra supply of water to put out a fire that often spared the second up engine from having to lay their 5 inch hose. A few of suburb cities- Plano, Grand Prairie to name a couple actually used their booster trucks on standard engine calls. The engine only ran on box alarms. the engine had a 1 man crew and the boosters had a 3-4 man crew, usually 3 back then in the small cities. All the cities have since gone to using engines for all their calls and the boosters are used mainly for brush/grass fires. In the summer up here it gets very hot/dry and there are a lot of fields, woods that burn readily. Plus passing trains throw sparks onto dry grass a lot and those are a big problem as well. Robert.[/quote]

Hello,

Just wanted to let you know that the HFD's '82 Seagrave 100ft ladder trucks are not completely gone. HFD recently donated the last two of them to the Houston Fire Museum, along with several other units. They were originally assigned to Ladder 68 in far southwest Houston and Ladder 32 in far northeast Houston. The goal of the museum is to pick one to restore and use the other for parts. I let you know the lucky one when it is picked.

Kenny