Outer Banks, North Carolina - Department profiles

[mnsand]

While in Moyock the comment was made about the new tanker at Crawford Township, about 7 miles down the road. Now I have been following Crawford TWP apparatus for a number of years. Crawford runs from three stations and have a unique variety of apparatus, both new and old. Each year my visit to OBX includes stops at Crawford, so this comment was a bit perplexing because I thought I was "in the know". How wrong I was.



I was a bit surprised to see a new Pierce tanker sitting in the bay at the Sligo station just recently delivered - still had the 30 day tags on it.



Engine 40 is a 2008 Pierce Arrow XT 1500/3500 with Pierce job number 20814. This is one big engine/tanker. The plans are to run it from the Sligo station but some changes are going to have to be made to the Crawford apparatus because there is no longer room at the stations.



In addition, Crawford has obtained a ex- Virginia Beach, VA engine/telesqurt (sorry, no other information) that is currently being rehabed and will be painted black over red. The initial plans are to have this also run from Sligo. I was told the ex- Virginia Beach unit will not replace the current Seagrave ladder truck Crawford runs. Add another ex- Virginia Beach fire truck to the Crawford TWP roster.



By the way, you can find other Crawford TWP photos on pages 1 and 17 of this thread.





Mike Sanders

Ashburn, VA