Fairfax County VA

[SrFireOfficial]

As for the other apparatus in the Pierceline, oops, pipeline: two new engines based on existing specs one of which might end up at the Fire Academy. The argument for putting one if not both at the firefighter factory is to have apparatus that the recruits can learn on and from with similar configurations to what they will experience in the real world of Operations. As most followers in this forum know, one of the Dash pumpers from the previous order that was originally assigned to the Fire Academy after delivery was reassigned to Engine 401 to replace McLean VFD's hard-worked 1997 Pierce Lance that ran many years as Engine 401 (a few of those with me in the right front seat). There is one tower ladder on order headed out to the west end at Fire Station 36. Delivery of this order is expect in early 2011.