Baltimore City Fire Department

[Guest]

Baltimore 1962 Ward LaFrance 1000/300 pumper, WLF #8051 which was assigned to Engine 47 in 1973.

- 1973 Duane Troxel Photo.

[Marc]

How many Engine and Truck companies did Baltimore City have during 1973. Sure seems like ALOT for a city that size (not a knock to Balto. City).

[Guest]

Baltimore also purchased two 1964 American LaFrance 1000/500 pumpers. Here is Engine 32, ALF #12-1-215.

- 1973 Duane Troxel Photo.

[Guest]

Also delivered in 1964 were two Americam LaFrance 100-foot TDA's, one of which was assigned to Ladder 18, ALF #13-1-218.

- 1973 Duane Troxel Photo.

[Guest]

In 1965 Baltimore purchased two additional Mack C 1000/300 pumpers. They were assigned to Engines 43 and 53 in 1973. Here is Engine 53, Mack #C95FD-1335 delivered on 3/17/1965.

- 1973 Duane Troxel Photo.

[Guest]

Engine 43 operated Mack #C95FD-1336, also delivered on 3/17/1965, and which had been repainted in the new department colors.

- 1973 Duane Troxel Photo.

[Guest]

Also in 1965, Baltimore received two Seagrave 100-foot TDA's, which were assigned to Ladders 15 & 23 in 1973. Here is Ladder 15, Seagrave #P-6761 delivered on 3/16/1965.

- 1973 Duane Troxel Photo.

[Guest]

And here is Ladder 23 using Seagrave #P-6730, delivered on 4/23/1965.

- 1973 Duane Troxel Photo.

[Guest]

Thats where I'm going to leave off tonight. Here is a Reserve Ambulance 2, a 1963 Chevrolet/Swab.

- 1973 Photo by Duane Troxel.

[SLIPPERYSAM]

firebuff55407, Thank you very much for the classic Baltimore City photo's you have posted. Please keep them coming. I can look at old Baltimore Rigs forever. Its really neat to see all the old Fire apparatus from years back. What classics.





Sam Valencia

[Engine2524]

[quote name='firebuff55407' post='52493' date='Nov 20 2006, 21:29 ']Thats where I'm going to leave off tonight. Here is a Reserve Ambulance 2, a 196x Chevrolet/unknown builder.

- 1973 Photo by Duane Troxel.[/quote]

Steve,

The body was built by Swab. They introduced that body, which was innovative at the time, in 1963. This would narrow it down to being from between a 1963-66 model.

[firepost]

[quote name='firebuff55407' post='52493' date='Nov 20 2006, 20:29 ']Thats where I'm going to leave off tonight. Here is a Reserve Ambulance 2, a 196x Chevrolet/unknown builder.

- 1973 Photo by Duane Troxel.[/quote]

Thanks for printing the Old Ambulance, Steve! I have never seen an old Baltimore Ambulance before.I can see that the old Ambulance looks very similar to the Old LAFD ambulances from the 1960's with their GMC cabs and chassis and the box type body.Those were a far cry from the Chicago Fire Ambulances which were always Limos and were Cadillacs.

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[Guest]

Crossbronxxpress - Sorry I didn't notice your question earlier. I believe Baltimore had 59 Engine Companies and 30 Truck Companies in 1973 when Duane was visiting.

[Guest]

SLIPPERYSAM - Thank you. It'll probably take two or three more nights to finish posting Duanes Baltimore images.



Engine 2524- I did look in Duane's pocket notebook from the trip after I'd posted RA2's image. I found Reserve Ambulance 2 listed as a 1963 Chevrolet/Swab, shop #730. Thanks.



firepost - Thank you. I'll post more Baltimore ambulances towards the end.



By the way- On Shop numbers - Duane did write down quite a few of the shop numbers on Baltimore apparatus in his pocket notebook. I haven't listed them here as they were not complete and I found a few duplicates, which meant there were some errors.

[Guest]

[quote name='Crossbronxxpress' post='52479' date='Nov 20 2006, 21:07 ']How many Engine and Truck companies did Baltimore City have during 1973. Sure seems like ALOT for a city that size (not a knock to Balto. City).[/quote]



While the area of the city is still the same the population is now almost 300,00 less than when the photographs were taken. By far the majority of those were tax payers as opposed to tax users.

Also been a lot of business and industry leave. Same story as many other places. At least they aren't running with 2 on a piece.

[Marc]

Thanks Wagonman and firebuff. My next question was going to be about staffing. What was Balto. City's staffing on an engine and truck in '73 as compared to '06?



And i understand full well the difference between tax payers and tax users, the neighborhood i work at in The Bronx suffered the same circumstances that Baltimore did. Our neighborhood population is slowly rising again with the construction of many new private homes and buildings.

[Guest]

[quote name='firebuff55407' post='52431' date='Nov 20 2006, 19:50 ']The 1961 Pirsch 100-foot TDA was originally assigned to Ladder 2 then to Ladder 18 (as seen here), Pirsch #2500, delivered on 2/8/1961. It had very recently been painted in the new colors.

- 1973 Photo by Duane Troxel.[/quote]

Reason being they had a steering knuckle come apart while on a response.

They ended up stricking several cars and front porches on Clifton Ave.

[Guest]

Duane didn't list any deliveries for Baltimore in 1966. 1967 Baltimore FD deliveries included two ALF engines and two ALF TDA's. Here is Baltimore Engine 6 in 1973 using 1967 ALF 1000/500, ALF #12-1-810.

- 1973 Photo by Duane Troxel.

[Guest]

Engine 40 had a matching rig, ALF #12-1-811.

- 1973 Photo by Duane Troxel.

[Guest]

The 1967 ALF 100-footers were assigned to Ladders 21 and 29 in 1973. Here is Ladder 21, ALF #12-1-812.

- 1973 Photo by Duane Troxel.