Engine 27 spent the autumn of ’91 weaving around the Crater Lakes, as Low Bid Contractor took nine weeks (!) to pour concrete on apron repairs. Wagon S-190 took a beating when one of the steel plates covering South Lake shifted, flipped up, and cracked the diesel tank’s outer case. At this time the Department was using “wagon only” responses and leaving the pumper and driver (at window) in the house, except for structure fire calls. It was the prelude to the pumpers’ demise.
Kevin Byrne