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MFD76 · 05-27-2009, 04:17 AM

House gong with riding assigment board and sparkey

MFD76 · 05-27-2009, 04:18 AM

House Gong for old Gamewell Box Alarm System. Still hits for alarms.

MFD76 · 05-27-2009, 04:19 AM

Classic 1950's Sparkey the fire dog Fire Prevention week display. Do you remeber these?

Really cool what a Fire House.

MFD76 · 05-27-2009, 04:21 AM

Second floor dayroom display.

MFD76 · 05-27-2009, 04:22 AM

Quint and Squad on the bay floor. I miss spoke earlier there are three brass poles. Two dayroom and One bunkroom.

MFD76 · 05-27-2009, 04:24 AM

Last Quint 1 with Q Siren, bell, and Roto-Ray.

Quint 1 and Engine 4 were the first Hutchison Fire units to come with Q sirens in about twenty-five years. They sure did them up right with bells and Roto-Rays classic with a fire truck sound.

MFD76 · 05-28-2009, 12:46 AM

Pittsburg, Kansas Fire Department Fire House 1 retired.

This fire house made its last alarm one week ago. It was replaced by a new state of the art two story fire house with fire poles outside of the downtown area of Pittsburg. This fire house opened in 1961 in the pictured renovated building. The building has an intresting history. It started life as the city steam generator station for heat in the downtown buildings. In 1960 it was decommissioned and convered to the Fire and Police Station. The two fire poles were removed from the orginal horse drawn fire house and moved into this building. It has very tight quarters as you can see in the photos. One fire pole is curved from a fire horse leaning on it at one time.

Pittsburg has three fire houses. Now staffing one squad, two quints 55ft, 75ft, one engine, and one tower ladder 85ft.

MFD76 · 05-28-2009, 12:55 AM

Pittsburg, Kansas Fire Department

They number one-nine

Fire House 1 at time of photo was Squad 5, 1990 Pierce Lance Engine 1, 1981 Pierce/LTI 85ft Ladder 4,

1984 Pierce Arrow Engine 9-reserve, and Batt 1.

Fire House 2 at time of photo was 1986 Pierce Arrow Engine 6, and 1964 IH/General 75ft Snorkel 7-reserve

Fire House 3 at time of photo was 2000 Smeal/Spartan 55ft Quint 3, 1968 IH/ General Engine 8-reserve, and

1975 IH-Henderickson/General Engine 3-reserve

At this time Engine 2 was replaced with Quint 3 the 55ft Spartan/Smeal Ladder. They deveated from the number system with this purchase naming the Quint 3 instead of 2.

MFD76 · 05-28-2009, 12:56 AM

Tight Fit

MFD76 · 05-28-2009, 01:59 AM

Mound City, Kansas Volunteer Fire Department and City Hall 1868

(west of US 69 between KC and Ft. Scott in Linn County)

They operate a nice early RED 1970's Chevy/General engine and a used YELLOW Pierce Suburban Ford C-8000 engine

The Pierce us up front and the General goes out the rear

MFD76 · 05-28-2009, 02:02 AM

Mound City, Kansas Volunteer Fire Department and City Hall 1868

05-28-2009, 07:17 PM

MFD 61 KS Nice pixs of the Kansas stations, any from Fort Riley?

MFD76 · 05-29-2009, 10:14 PM

[quote name='Ted' post='309463' date='May 28 2009, 18:18 ']MFD 61 KS Nice pixs of the Kansas stations, any from Fort Riley?[/quote]

Hi Ted, I am sorry I do not have any photos of Ft. Riley. I will be in Manhattan for K-State football later this year so, I might be able to make it over to Junction City for photos.

Stay Safe, Rick

MFD76 · 06-01-2009, 07:09 PM

Fort Scott, Kansas Retired Fire House One early 1900's-1993

Fort Scott is fully career four firemen perday. With now two fire houses as of March 2009. This fire house was replaced in 1993 when the current ladder truck was purchased. The new ladder fit however the chief at the time told the city it would not and applied for a FDA Rural Land Grant. They won the grant and the current fire house on S. National was built.

When built it was a single bay fire house.