Virginia apparatus - miscellaneous

[Roto-Ray]

I guess I can make some comments about this since I'm on Henrico's apparatus committee. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/cool.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='B)' />



You have a good eye and caught many of the things that we changed for the newest batches of rigs. We did add the LED's to the bumper after experimenting with these on Engine 8 for about a year, they work well. As for the electronic speaker, we just let Pierce install whatever they have, there's little consistancy on the siren speakers on our rigs. We started putting hard sleeve racks on new deliveries about 3 years ago. There is a 72" fully populated Whelen Freedom bar on the roof. Wanted the three mini-bars (a'la FDNY) but couldn't get it to work based on the AC condensor and light tower locations on the roof. In fact, ALL exterior lights are LED now with the exception of the headlights.



One thing you don't notice in the Piece photo is the longer wheelbase due to the addition of speedlays in front of the pump compartment. We've also gone back to two rear-facing and two forward-facing seats in the rear, as the previous batch had three forward-facing seats only. We addeda 2.5" auxiliary fill to the driver's side pump panel, there used to only be one on the officer's side. Powercall 6-B sirens are now standard also.



There are only three Quantums in Henrico that have bells on them, Engines 1, 10, and 17. These bells have been moved from rig-to-rig (as Engine 10 had the same bell on thier 1985 ALF, 1998 Quantum, and now their 2007 Quantum) for many years. So why do the TWH collectables all show bells on E10, E4, E21, and E11? Because the molding was done from photos of E-10, and since the other three Quantums were built as sister rigs to E-10, all of the models were done exactly the same, minus the graphics. Bells aren't part of our standard engine spec!



Hope this helped!