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[quote name='R1SmokeEater' timestamp='1332210769' post='478111']

Is that pic of Ladder-15's Maxim the one caught under the Vendome collapse?

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I think it is.
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[quote name='R1SmokeEater' timestamp='1332210769' post='478111']

Is that pic of Ladder-15's Maxim the one caught under the Vendome collapse?

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It is the L15 crushed at the Vendome. This truck was rebult after the collapse and reentered service not sure if this picture was pre or post collapse
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Last of the Lime rig pix on disc.....

Spare #174: 1973 Maxim, shows as ExEngine-14, then ExEngine-33:


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Engine-10's Hose Wagon


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Rescue-1's repainted 1977 Ford/Providence repaint:



More to come, the rest of the pix are the 80's Ford/E-Ones- etc.......


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[quote name='R1SmokeEater' timestamp='1332433217' post='478345']

Rescue-1's repainted 1977 Ford/Providence repaint:



More to come, the rest of the pix are the 80's Ford/E-Ones- etc.......

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Ladder 17 right behind it, a 1984 Hurricane model, the FIRST of MANY E\-One 110' aerials that we purchased! We got the 2nd one purchased, first of 3 that we've had (a 1984, a 1993 & a 2011)
FF Sean 'Skip' Olson
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[quote name='Skip Olson BFD L14' timestamp='1332439551' post='478352']

Ladder 17 right behind it, a 1984 Hurricane model, the FIRST of MANY E\-One 110' aerials that we purchased! We got the 2nd one purchased, first of 3 that we've had (a 1984, a 1993 & a 2011)

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Skip, All those photos coming up next!

Also, always wondered, whats the story behind the heavy duty tubular bumpers on the older rigs? Almost look like a locomotive "cow catcher"!
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[quote name='R1SmokeEater' timestamp='1332440593' post='478354']



Skip, All those photos coming up next!

Also, always wondered, whats the story behind the heavy duty tubular bumpers on the older rigs? Almost look like a locomotive "cow catcher"![/quote]



Have you ever driven in Boston? <img src="https://firepics.net/MyBB/../groupboards/public/style_emoticons/default/lol.gif" alt="Lol" title="Lol" class="smilie smilie_62" />



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Have you ever driven in Boston? <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.png' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='Lol' />



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I will make it there one day- wife keeps on pestering me to go, she's been.....

Will my New York driving stick out? I'm sure they're quite similiar....LOL!



After posting these pix, it made me pull out Pat Smith's book again, what a great photo book! Rear c

over IS Ladder-15s piece under collapse......RIP Bros.





I was trying to track Pat down, I have 2 of his vids of Boston I'd like to put up on YouTube for u Fellas, good stuff!
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[quote name='R1SmokeEater' timestamp='1332440593' post='478354']

Skip, All those photos coming up next!

Also, always wondered, whats the story behind the heavy duty tubular bumpers on the older rigs? Almost look like a locomotive "cow catcher"!

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Way I heard it told, those are known as 'Bury Bars (as in Roxbury).... they could be used to knock down the fences you always found around the triple deckers to get better access to the fire scene. Don't know if that's an "urban legend", but an old salt Boston FF told me that many moons ago.
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[quote name='maximsnorkel27' timestamp='1332446342' post='478364']

Way I heard it told, those are known as 'Bury Bars (as in Roxbury).... they could be used to knock down the fences you always found around the triple deckers to get better access to the fire scene. Don't know if that's an "urban legend", but an old salt Boston FF told me that many moons ago.

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Seen it done many times....we at EMS gave the nickname "bully bumpers" to the ones on our trucks.
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[quote name='R1SmokeEater' timestamp='1332445469' post='478363']

I will make it there one day- wife keeps on pestering me to go, she's been.....

Will my New York driving stick out? I'm sure they're quite similiar....LOL!



After posting these pix, it made me pull out Pat Smith's book again, what a great photo book! Rear c

over IS Ladder-15s piece under collapse......RIP Bros.





I was trying to track Pat down, I have 2 of his vids of Boston I'd like to put up on YouTube for u Fellas, good stuff!

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Do yourself and the wife a favor, take a cab or train. Have no desire to drive in Boston or New York City. Did it once or twice, years back and never again.
John Hinant
Retired Member of Richmond VA Fire Bureau

October 25, 1858 - October 25, 2020 = 162 years old
The sixth oldest paid, documented, Fire Department in the United States
First established in 1782







"In God We Trust - All Others We Take For Granted"
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[quote name='R1SmokeEater' timestamp='1331863338' post='477612']

Boston Rescue-2

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[quote name='Mike Mynahan' timestamp='1331916378' post='477663']

On FP a few years ago, was a then-current shot of R2 in a truck lot somewhere in NYS. Looked pretty much intact.

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In 2007, it was a bit less than "intact". It was at Northern Fire Apparatus in Watertown NY. The next visit I made up there, it was gone along with most everything else on the lot.



I didn't have my weedwacker with me.


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[quote name='CNYFireTrucks' timestamp='1332545945' post='478526']

In 2007, it was a bit less than "intact". It was at Northern Fire Apparatus in Watertown NY. The next visit I made up there, it was gone along with most everything else on the lot.



I didn't have my weedwacker with me.

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5 years made the memory more optimistic than the fact.
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