Virginia apparatus - miscellaneous

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Two things happened at Philomont that made that stop nice.



First, just after photographing all of the apparatus, Station 8 was dispatched for a "Machinery Fire", which turned out to be a lawnmower on fire. The sound of the older fire house siren activating and seeing Wagon 8 and Reserve Tanker 8 responding was pretty neat. Eventually, Unit 8 also added to the call, along with Chief 8. I tried convincing some of the guys on the photo trip that I had arranaged not to be able to get to Round Hill right away so we could capture the moment of the house siren going off, etc. No one bought that at all.



Pete West is a good friend of mine and is a member of Philomont. In addition to helping out with the photographs of the Philomont apparatus, Pete also brought down to the photography site one of his pumpers that he owns. In addition to this American LaFrance, Pete also owns several Buffalo (the apparatus manufacturer) fire trucks.



Victoria, VA

1965 Chevrolet C80/American LaFrance

750/500



Pete purchased this truck in 1998. He also added the Roto Ray light on the drivers side.





Mike Sanders

Ashburn, VA

Author: Loudoun County Fire and Rescue Apparatus History - Arcadia Publishing