03-12-2009, 10:49 PM (This post was last modified: 03-12-2009, 10:50 PM by rontroutsa.)
They wanted to buy 10 but money was only there for 4 of them. They are replacing some of the busier companies in the northern part of the city. Engines 2,7,25,and 50. No word as of yet what will be done with the current pieces will most likely go to the reserve status.
Ron Trout
EMT-Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Emergency Transport Team
The back of the body reminds me of the old style KME bodies when they were slanted in the back. Any reason PFD had their new trucks built like that? Is there a compartment in there?
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[quote name='Crossbronxxpress' post='289273' date='Mar 13 2009, 15:13 ']Nice lookin' rigs. How come they did away with the front suction?[/quote]
Marc,
They did away with the raised roof, front suction, mounted deck gun, and went with a lesser graphics package to save money. The goal was to shave $38,000.00 off the price of each piece.
The batch of 1991 Seagrave pumpers they bought (pictured) were the first to have pre-piped deck guns. I guess they'll have to go back to the portable monitors again.
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[quote name='JFong' post='289377' date='Mar 13 2009, 20:16 ']Without the deck gun, do they have a portable monitor in its place or nothing period?[/quote]
Even with the deck gun a portable monitor was also carried. The companies with these new pieces will just use the portable now.
[quote name='pfdbuff' post='289421' date='Mar 13 2009, 19:09 ']Even with the deck gun a portable monitor was also carried. The companies with these new pieces will just use the portable now.[/quote]
Didn't know that. Thanks for the info.
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