Minnesota Apparatus

[Guest]

This 1971 Ford L/Gerstenlager Squad was assigned as Squad 1.



It had a small pump and 300 GWT





Bill Friedrich Photo

[Guest]

In 1984 Custom Fire built two units for Squads 1 & 2. They had 1000gpm pumps and 500GWT.

[Guest]

In 1995 Squad's 1 & 2 were rebuilt by Toyne with new White GMC chassis. The rebuild used the pump and body from the 1984 Squads.

[Guest]

You might wonder why Squad 1 is on a Ford L chassis. A couple weeks after going into service, the squad was involved in an accident ans was rebuilt with a 1996 Ford chassis.







That's all I have for St. Paul, without just posting duplicates of the same apparatus already posted.



As always, I hope that you enjoy them.

[davemcclung]

[quote name='photobuff6162' post='287578' date='Mar 6 2009, 20:57 ']You might wonder why Squad 1 is on a Ford L chassis. A couple weeks after going into service, the squad was involved in an accident ans was rebuilt with a 1996 Ford chassis.







That's all I have for St. Paul, without just posting duplicates of the same apparatus already posted.



As always, I hope that you enjoy them.[/quote]





That run through St. Paul present and past was a real treat John, thanks! Somewhere I think I have an old shot of the Snoopy cover that covered the Squirt nozzel on Engine 1. If I can ever find it again, I will scan it and post it. I was always partial to the two Squirts.

[Guest]

Can someone explain the St. Paul Squad concept? These look like standard pumpers, while the newer ones look like rescues. I'm assuming they resond to all box alarms, haz-mat, and technical/physical rescue calls. Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

Because of how St. Paul does EMS, every piece of primary apparatus has a pump and tank. All of the medic units are assigned to Engine companies (M-4,M-6,M-9,M-10,M-14,M-18,M-19,M-22,M-24), and when there is a EMS call, all four FF"S will jump off the engine and onto the ambulance. With EMS being 80% or more of the call volume, there could possibly be 4-5 engines out of service at any given time. There have been attempts in the past to change the system to a more traditional service, where the Ambulance and Engine crews do not run as one unit, but any change would involve staffing changes.



The three new squads have pumps, with Sq-1 & 2 having 750gpm pumps, and Sq-3 having 1250gpm. They do run on all Fires, Rescues and will also run as a EMS first responder, if a Medic unit is coming from a distance. Quite often a squad will pull the first line on a fire, but their primary duties would be a more traditional roll.

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[willman940]

Ohhh yea, thats what I was going to do today...whoops!

[Frank B]

Hopkins MN 1941 Buffalo

refited aerial Pirsch 75'



Bill Schwartz collection

[Guest]

Eagan, MN E-1 and E-4



2009 Pierce Velocity PUC rescue engines. 1500/750/25/10kW gen/Command light tower 21486-01&02

[rpcarlsen]

Minneapolis, MN E6

200X Pierce Arrow XT

[Frank B]

Pipesmoke Minn 1940 Buffalo



D Adelman collection

[Frank B]

Oakland MI American Chevy



Info may be wrong, it could be from MD

[grubber33270]

I will repost hastings trucks when i get a chance

[grubber33270]

I will repost the rest of Hastings when i get a sec

[grubber33270]

I will repost Burnsville and South metro trucks when i get a second.

[hoss]

What is the fire duty (fire call volume), staffing per and are they vol/call/combo/paid, and population of the major FDs in MN?