Virginia apparatus - miscellaneous

[mnsand]

I was in Newport News this week for a meeting and found that I was right down the street from Station 6, which houses an unusual HAZMAT unit that I have been trying to track down and photograph.



This is a busy house. I had been by the station three prior times and it was empty, except the HAZMAT sitting in the station. This week I dropped by again, and no one was home. Just as I was leaving a medic unit that was transferred to the station pulled up, but unfortunately, they could not move the HAZMAT out. Just as I was leaving another crew came back - I finally found my driver.



HAZMAT 1 is a 2004 Pierce Lance with a trailer also built by Pierce. I was told that Newport News ended up getting this truck because the military cancelled an order and Newport News was able to purchase it. It has Pierce job number 14972.





Mike Sanders

Ashburn, VA