From Stevensville I went further south to the City of Hamilton. I contacted the Fire-Chief in advance, as Hamilton has a large fleet of very interesting apparatus. Unfortunately, at this Sunday the Chief was out of town and nobody else was available to open the fire-station. Oh well.
As my final destination in Montana was the City of Bozeman, I had plans to drive east on Montana State Road 38. I asked at a gas-station in Hamilton about the road-condition and was warned to use the road, some 40 miles of gravel-road in a steep mountainous area, dangerous to drive with bad weather. So I took the detour, back to Missoula and then I-5 east. As I was a bit tired, I did an overnight stay in Butte. Butte is an old rustic mining-town, that has seen much better days. The uptown area has lots of old large buildings, hotels and banks, most of them shut down.
On the next morning I visited the headquarters of the Butte FD. Engine 1 is this 2008 Pierce Velocity with 1500 gpm-pump, 750 gallons of water and 30 gallons of foam.
As my final destination in Montana was the City of Bozeman, I had plans to drive east on Montana State Road 38. I asked at a gas-station in Hamilton about the road-condition and was warned to use the road, some 40 miles of gravel-road in a steep mountainous area, dangerous to drive with bad weather. So I took the detour, back to Missoula and then I-5 east. As I was a bit tired, I did an overnight stay in Butte. Butte is an old rustic mining-town, that has seen much better days. The uptown area has lots of old large buildings, hotels and banks, most of them shut down.
On the next morning I visited the headquarters of the Butte FD. Engine 1 is this 2008 Pierce Velocity with 1500 gpm-pump, 750 gallons of water and 30 gallons of foam.
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