Richmond, Va

[VFN102]

The original idea as I understand it was to run the engines/FRVs on incidents that do not require an aerial device (car, dumpster & brush fires, EMS calls, etc) to help save the quint from running up and down the road as much. I think some officers prefer to just stay on the quint and run it on every call rather than jumping back and forth from one piece to the other. If you listen to Richmond fire dispatch, however, you will often hear engines as part of structural assignments. That most likely means the quint for that particular company is either out of service or they had taken the engine on a call and were not yet back in quarters when the structure call was dispatched.