State Of Conneticut

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Blue Hills - a sweetheart of a Pierce Rescue Pumper





Enfield





Broad Brook





Simsbury





Monroe







Durham





East Farmington







Ex-UCONN Health Center I believe

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Bounching around a little bit here's a good chunk of Torrington's fleet, I wish I could hear them on the scanner, they get a fair amount of action and don't run EMS.











TPD - the Winsted Chief works for them and waved me right into this scene of a medical building in May of '05.



Ladder 2 - shot last year too - this just came back from a minor refurb job, Torrington only ladder, mutual aid covered while it was gone from Winsted & Litchfield. Gonna hafta get down there and shoot the new paint job.

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Onto the 2004 Convention, again I'll try not repeat any rigs already posted.

The hosts:

Westfield







Portland







Cromwell

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Longest Distance trophy winners?



N. Branford





Essex







Shelton





Derby - one of the 2006 Convention hosts

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Oh, sure you can set up at the judging station - yeah guess what I get shots of - judges - not BFRTs <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/dry.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='<_<' />













This one from Southington is worth reposting













I have detail shots somewhere of this Hummer from Ellington if anyone is interested.

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Interesting paint scheme on that Kensington ALF. It looks like they took it off of the ALF from Violetville, Maryland who took it from Clinton, Maryland. That made for some great conversations a couple years back at the Maryland State Convention.

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I think that Clinton at one point was the state ambulance champs.







Marlborough - a semi-rare Middlesex





That ends the 2004 parade



links to the whole parades if you are really bored:

2002

[url="http://community.webshots.com/album/52108374AfDnTI"]http://community.webshots.com/album/52108374AfDnTI[/url]



2003

[url="http://www.members.aol.com/reo1930spdwgn/ctconvention2003/"]http://www.members.aol.com/reo1930spdwgn/ctconvention2003/[/url]



2004

[url="http://www.fireservicephotography.com/09_2004/091904/"]http://www.fireservicephotography.com/09_2004/091904/[/url]

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Gonna hold off on the 2005 parade for a bit and see what else pops up, like this rescue from Nepaug, one of the companies that runs in the town of New Hartford.

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One of Colebrook's tankers I think this one is the 4,000 gallon one.







New Hartford's newer tanker





Drakeville - one of the 3 volley companies that work the rural parts of Torrington, CT

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West Hartland







Avon

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Simsbury











Hunt around the links on the CFPA website (logo below) for Simsbury's website - tons of info and more pics of this huge VFD.

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Farmington







East Farms - same town different company







Tunxis Hose aka Unionville - still Town of Farmington





Finally getting out of Farmington...

Bloomfield





Warehouse Point

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Granby







Pvtly owned - fmr Avon Rig





AMR 0007 - Medic's name was Bond - yeah right <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/hysterical.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

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Okay those were from the 2005 Avon Parade

Up next is the 100th annv. parade held in Lakeville - Lakeville is a village (or the like) within the town of Salisbury.



We've seen Lakeville's fleet already, but the other day I caught Engine 60 on a lowboy and the driver (a Canaan FC officer) told me it was headed to Buffalo for refurb.

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Cornwall







Gee, this New Hartford crew keeps popping up everywhere.





Northville





Burrville Fire School -







Nothing like a little Mopar power to make me happy - Gaylordsville is a section of Kent, CT







Speaking of Kent - guess the my Sony didn't like the slime either.

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Middlebury











Possible reposts







Nichols - I think it was their ladder I posted earlier, these guys know how to polish a rig & they do it right up until the judges stand.

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Pine Meadow - another company within New Hartford







Out of service - was going up for sale when I shot it back in 12/2005 Ex-Drakeville Rig





Its getting slim pickin's folks I will hunt around my hard drives to see if there aren't a few more I can throw up for ya...but in the mean time I actually gotta do some work. <img src='http://www.firepics.net/groupboards/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/computer.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt='' />

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Cheshire Maxim - was oos when I was there in '04