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friendlybob:Our new Spartan chassis for our new tower will be coming off line in October (I got blessed to go with our DC to drive it) and going to South Dakota for the body from Rosenbauer. Has anyone had ANY experience with this company back East?? Just wondering. Low bidder and not many examples around, just picking heads. Stay safe folks, ...

I've taken this annual affair in several times, but won't be able to this year.  It's a good meal, good schmooze, a chance to come face to face with the pipeline folks, learn a little bit, raise questions and get answers.  If you don't know where pipelines are other than your street gas lines, or if you don't know ...

I have four of what appears to be the same thing.  They are soda-acid extinguishers.  The water has baking soda mixed in with it.  The glass bottle is about 1/4 to 1/3 full of sulfuric acid.  There is a loose lead plug in the top of the bottle called a stopple.  Its purpose is to prevent the ...

Have fun with the Spartan/E1.  Keep a check on the power steering reservoir! Stay safe out there, everyone goes home!

The altruistic, to "SELL NEWSPAPERS."

Serious bucks involved in repainting.  We didn't burn the Duplex badly enough to repaint it, so I guess it and SS11 will finish their careers yellow.  So once again, we have color coded engines.  No longer can we ask, "Why are the empty hose beds yellow...?" We had decided early on that we wanted a fixed deck ...

Thanks!  Although it wasn't the original intent, we're noticing that while we have red among a sea of red, it still stands out.

Actually, we're going back to what we had years ago.  Our '48 Ward LaFrance was painted approximately that color.  We took our best shot at duplicating it on our '58 FWD (the one that FWDbuff now owns) and our '68 Hahn.  Our '78 Hahn was the first yellow truck and that continued on with our '89 ...

The new E11 that you saw is a replacement for the current E11-1, our '78 Hahn.  The current E11 ('89 Quality/Duplex) will be redesignated.  After repair work by John Miller & Son / Shop 1's Oreland shop, it is back in service and running first out.  The new one arrived in the station Sunday night after Expo ...

I'm probably the last one who should be chiming in on this subject since I'm not a ladder person at all. But the instant I saw the picture, a memory flashback occurred. In the mid sixties, I was in a class at the the Fire Service Extension (now MFRI) of the University of Maryland. The speaker was Hubert Walker who was American ...