[quote name='FDSafetyMentor' post='203155' date='Apr 6 2008, 13:17 ']The old Chesterfield Truck 12 (Pirsch 110') has been acquired by a member of the ODHFS and is resting comfortably inside a storage building as work is done to spruce it up a bit. Tools and equipment are being acquired and mounted and there is the slight problem of getting the brakes fixed - which is more of a hassle than it sounds. It sits too high to load on a low boy to truck to the one shop that has agreed to work on it. The truck loaded on a low boy will be too high to fit under some overpasses along the route. With any luck it will be back on the road someday soon.
Here's a shot of it within the last two years shortly after it was purchased and moved back to Chesterfield after being out of the county for a time. Photo credit to Tom Herman.[/quote]
That picture brings back some memories!! Tommy’s doing an awesome job with old Truck 12 (AKA Unit 127) I remember when this rig was brand new…here are a few bits of ‘Truck 12 Trivia’
*The Pirsh replaced a Ford ‘C’/Oren Midmount quint with a 750GPM pump and either a 75’ or 65’ Grove aerial ladder. That rig… (Like the Pirsh) was paid for partially by Virginia State University.
*Truck 12 was the third company in Chesterfield to get 24 hour salaried personnel…I believe they first went in service on OLD 127…the Ford/Oren/Grove
*The rig was placed in service during the summer of 1974. The Mars 888 Light in the rig’s nose had a clear lens for the first couple of months the rig was in service. Also, this unit and Truck 2 (Unit 27) were, I believe, the first rigs in the county to have strobe lights as warning lights…the two rear warning lights were red strobes.
*The very first time the aerial ladder was used on a call was at the old Safeway store in Chester…or more specifically, the Safeway SIGN. A bird’s nest that had been built in the sign in contact with a light bulb started smoldering, and Unit 127 was special called to access the burning nest.
*The rig ran many a working fire in Petersburg and more than a few in Colonial Heights…While I’m not positive, I THINK the first time the ladder pipe was put in service was a Mutual Aid call in Petersburg.
*Truck 12 had a HUGE first due area when they first went in service, comprising pretty much the entire south end of the county…. (Remember, back then Chesterfield only had two truck companies…Truck 3 didn’t go in service until, I believe, November ‘74), Truck 12 was first due on Route 10 from Chesterfield Courthouse all the way to Enon, and up Jeff Davis Highway about up to Bellwood Road. If they caught a run in the portion of their area north of Colonial Heights, they went through Colonial Heights…Trust me, that big open cab rear mount slaloming through rush hour traffic on The Boulevard, Q2 wound out and Grovers bellowing, was truly a sight and sound to behold.
*In the early 80s, a truck driver missed the on-ramp from Rt 10 West to I-95 North, and tumbled down a 5o or so foot embankment, with the cab…separated from the frame of the tractor… ending up beneath the trailer. After a long, complicated extrication, Truck 12’s ladder was used to hoist the Stokes basket with the patient up out of the bottom.
*On Nov 2nd, 1975, 12 Truck, 2 Truck, and 3 Truck all had their ladder pipes on service in Chester, at Saint Johns Episcopal Church. This was the first time in CFD history that three ladder pipes were in service at the same time, as well as the first time ever that a 2nd alarm was requested in Chesterfield
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Here's a shot of it within the last two years shortly after it was purchased and moved back to Chesterfield after being out of the county for a time. Photo credit to Tom Herman.[/quote]
That picture brings back some memories!! Tommy’s doing an awesome job with old Truck 12 (AKA Unit 127) I remember when this rig was brand new…here are a few bits of ‘Truck 12 Trivia’
*The Pirsh replaced a Ford ‘C’/Oren Midmount quint with a 750GPM pump and either a 75’ or 65’ Grove aerial ladder. That rig… (Like the Pirsh) was paid for partially by Virginia State University.
*Truck 12 was the third company in Chesterfield to get 24 hour salaried personnel…I believe they first went in service on OLD 127…the Ford/Oren/Grove
*The rig was placed in service during the summer of 1974. The Mars 888 Light in the rig’s nose had a clear lens for the first couple of months the rig was in service. Also, this unit and Truck 2 (Unit 27) were, I believe, the first rigs in the county to have strobe lights as warning lights…the two rear warning lights were red strobes.
*The very first time the aerial ladder was used on a call was at the old Safeway store in Chester…or more specifically, the Safeway SIGN. A bird’s nest that had been built in the sign in contact with a light bulb started smoldering, and Unit 127 was special called to access the burning nest.
*The rig ran many a working fire in Petersburg and more than a few in Colonial Heights…While I’m not positive, I THINK the first time the ladder pipe was put in service was a Mutual Aid call in Petersburg.
*Truck 12 had a HUGE first due area when they first went in service, comprising pretty much the entire south end of the county…. (Remember, back then Chesterfield only had two truck companies…Truck 3 didn’t go in service until, I believe, November ‘74), Truck 12 was first due on Route 10 from Chesterfield Courthouse all the way to Enon, and up Jeff Davis Highway about up to Bellwood Road. If they caught a run in the portion of their area north of Colonial Heights, they went through Colonial Heights…Trust me, that big open cab rear mount slaloming through rush hour traffic on The Boulevard, Q2 wound out and Grovers bellowing, was truly a sight and sound to behold.
*In the early 80s, a truck driver missed the on-ramp from Rt 10 West to I-95 North, and tumbled down a 5o or so foot embankment, with the cab…separated from the frame of the tractor… ending up beneath the trailer. After a long, complicated extrication, Truck 12’s ladder was used to hoist the Stokes basket with the patient up out of the bottom.
*On Nov 2nd, 1975, 12 Truck, 2 Truck, and 3 Truck all had their ladder pipes on service in Chester, at Saint Johns Episcopal Church. This was the first time in CFD history that three ladder pipes were in service at the same time, as well as the first time ever that a 2nd alarm was requested in Chesterfield
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