Rescue 7 in Penn Hills is a 1998 Sutphen with bodywork from Rescue Master. John Schmidt photo
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The Moon Twp FD has this baby-blue colored 2000 ALF Eagle 148 with bodywork from 3-D Fire Apparatus. John Schmidt photo
[quote name='kieferfire' date='Jan 14 2007, 13:46 ' post='67439']
The Fire Departments in the Pittsburgh area have some very unique apparatus colors. Purple Engine 2 in North Apollo was (or is) a 1984 Pierce Dash with 1000 gpm-pump and 750 gallon-tank. John Schmidt photo Theres a reason for the strange colors in the kiski valley (westmoreland and armstrong border) Before westmoreland and armstrong 911 these handful of companys were dispatched as color. IE brown engine, purple engine, blue engine, brown truck. ect Most of the companys painted their trucks the colors that were assigned, (all except pink and black) These are the ones that painted their trucks that color. Red - Vandergrift 2 Brown - Vandergrift 1 Blue - North Vandergrift Green - Parks Twp Purple - North Apollo Orange - Alleghney Twp Yellow - Oklahoma Silver - Washington Twp (were white) Grey - Markle White - Hyde Park Trucks not painted to their color Pink - Apollo 2 and 3 Black - Gilpin Twp ss- Specail services (vandergrift rescue and air) 
And dispatch was referred to as "Rainbow Control"..........
Hey Felix, did the silver fire co. have a Ford C-series/Pierce engine? I took a 35mm pic of one at West Lebanon VFC in Indiana Co., last June. Besides being silver, it had a top-mount panel and a small turret gun on the front bumper. It was sitting outside the station, and had been stripped.
Warren,
I took a picture of the engine you are referring to at West Lebanon last summer. West Lebanon told me they purchased it used from the Pine Twp. Fire Dept. in Indiana County. Pine Twp also has a rescue in that silver color.
tom bretz a ffII,retired disabled ff/emt from Kingston PA F D,own 2 wardlafranceengs a 49,a66,member of iaff 840,six cnty fire asso,pa state firemen's assoc, pa pump primers,schuylkill historic fire soc(spaamfaa's newest chapter--black diamond),luzerne cnty fire/rescue,life mem of columbian fire co kingston,former app op at laflin,edwrdsvlle,forty fort all in pa
[quote name='wardengine' post='67564' date='Jan 14 2007, 20:10 ']hey scott that green bottle wouldn't be interfering your sorting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!lol[/quote]
<img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='  ' /> For those of us from the pre "just say no" era, those green bottles were known as "research enhancers" at the institutes of higher learning I hung around...Scott, I sympathize; I've got several shoeboxes like that! Do you get any assistance from your feline friend?
[quote name='Dr. Stinebaugh' post='67587' date='Jan 14 2007, 21:05 ']<img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='
' /> For those of us from the pre "just say no" era, those green bottles were known as "research enhancers" at the institutes of higher learning I hung around...Scott, I sympathize; I've got several shoeboxes like that! Do you get any assistance from your feline friend?[/quote] boy i'd love to look thru them with him. hes got some real goodies from my area
tom bretz a ffII,retired disabled ff/emt from Kingston PA F D,own 2 wardlafranceengs a 49,a66,member of iaff 840,six cnty fire asso,pa state firemen's assoc, pa pump primers,schuylkill historic fire soc(spaamfaa's newest chapter--black diamond),luzerne cnty fire/rescue,life mem of columbian fire co kingston,former app op at laflin,edwrdsvlle,forty fort all in pa
"silver company" or washington twp vfc. Was my old department.
During their silver days they had a Ford C model/Pirch engine which was sold to west lebanon. Sadly it ended up here, at pechins "Death of many great trucks" auction. I do not have great pictures as there was a stack of crap infront of it so if anyone else has a good picture please post it. They also had a Ford c model Pierce telesquirt that was sold to a broker and no one has seen or heard of it since. Ill try to post pictures but i dont want to walk over tascman. There were quite a few Rainbow control rigs at the "death auction" A few were Gilpen C model ford Apollo C model ford Washington twp C model ford Oklahoma GMC Hyde Park C model ford
Heres one of the telesquirt 1976 (not the Colored in flags on the grille) Ford/pierce
Ford C models were very poplular in the Rainbow control area. |
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