The DCFD let a $56,000 contract in the year1946-47 for two wagons and two ladder trucks, all American LaFrance 700-series apparatus. The trucks went in service with Truck Companies 4 and 11. These were the department’s first 4-section aerials, allowing the tillerman to gain a few seconds on the fireground by not having to throw the tiller assembly.
C.1947 parade photograph, Pennsylvania Ave at 14th St. NW, photographer unknown
Kevin Byrne