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[quote name='Frank B' post='291693' date='Mar 22 2009, 22:58 ']This truck is not parked on a Hill! The photo slipped on my scanner.
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
Thanks Bruce, I knew it was something like that.
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[quote name='BA000049' post='291772' date='Mar 23 2009, 07:31 ']Tim,
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[quote name='Truckie32' post='291932' date='Mar 23 2009, 18:46 ']I've been working at this plant for the last 3 years and have never seen it.
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This next batch of pics refer to Posts # 3988, 3989, 3990 and 4000. Sorry it took so long for me to dig them up and scan them. Back in the early days of radio in the fire service, there existed a regional dispatch center in the Armstrong/Westmoreland County areas of Pennsylvania. Each participating FD was assigned a color for identification purposes. Since many of these FD's worked side by side under mutual aid agreements, the colors were often used to keep track of what belonged to who. The dispatch center became known as "Rainbow Control". Several of the participating FD's went so far as to paint their apparatus in their assigned colors. Here are several examples:
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Engine 2, Parks Township, PA
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Squrt 20, Hose Company #2, Apollo, PA
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Apollo was actualy "pink" company
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Engine 2, G.G. McMurtry #1, Vandergrift, PA
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Truck 1, G.G. McMurtry #1, Vandergrift, PA
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