Kansas City area fire apparatus

[MFD76]

KCFD Truck 13 at Fire House Thirty-Nine (far east side of KC by sports complex) ex Truck 6



1996 Sutphen 100ft Tower



This is the last of a long line of Sutphens in the KCFD and it will soon be replaced. The first Sutphen was purchased in 1979 at the KC IAFC confrence in lime-green later repainted white over red it was 85ft. It served Truck 6 its entire career. The second Sutphen was a 1990 100ft lime-green never repainted assigned to Truck 3. The next three were 1993 104ft sticks with no pumps or tanks and white over red assigned to Trucks 8,12,13 all three have been totaled in accidents. The last two was this 1996 rig and a 1996 little sister 75ft Sutphen Quint assgined to Quint 38. It had a very short life and was gone entirly by 1998. Qunits have never fared well in the KCFD. Truck 13 is well liked by its crew and they are sad to see it go soon. Most likly it will be disposed of since there are no other rigs like it on the KCFD and they are trying to have a simlar truck fleet for operational safety.