This is one of San Jose’s Reserve Ladder trucks. This is the old Truck 1, a 100′ Platform truck built by Simon-Duplex, which was moved to reserve status in July 2008 when the new Truck 1 Tiller was added to the San Jose fleet.In San Jose Fire Department terms this is now known as BFO-3-T, [...]

At around 4:16am San Jose Fire department received reports of an elementary school on fire. By 5:30am the incident had escalated to 6 alarms, leaving the main building of San Jose Unified’s Trace Elementary Schol containing the library, media center and 16 classrooms, destroyed.San Jose Truck 18 sets up on the Alpha Bravo corner. SJS [...]

In April 2008 Mountain View Fire Department ordered 7 new Pierce Quantum Fire Engines and a new TDA Ladder Truck. The first units arrived in Mountain View the last week of June, 2009.Seen here in early July the first units are undergoing testing and being used to train the fire crews on their use.Truck 1 [...]

The ATC Wildland Ultra is a wildland fire engine manufactured by American Truck Company that is built around a Tatra drive train. The ATC is a 61,000 lb GVW, six wheel drive truck that carries 2500 gallons of water. It has a Type III pump with an Odin CAFS and joystick controlled front mounted monitor. [...]

Fire in Old Montreal. from http://www.flickr.com/photos/sash/

I go away for three weeks and look what happens. San Jose Fire Department has put this new Tractor Drawn Aerial into service at Fire Station 13.The new Truck 13 replaces both the old Truck 13 and Light Unit 13. This is a 2007 Crimson TDA with a Spartan Gladiator chassis. It’s a Tiller Truck [...]

Unit from the German Federal Reserve. Attack pointless. There are minimum six armed Officers in the truck. from http://www.flickr.com/photos/unknownisland/

Mad max is what it says on the front brush guard, probably and old military deuce converted into a wildland fire truck for the state of Mass. Source: SighlentJ

The first week of September 2009 Mountain View Fire Department placed it’s new 100′ TDA Ladder Truck into service. The crew of Truck one tell me earlier this same day was the truck’s first run.Truck 1 is now a 2009 Pierce Tractor Drawn Aerial, built on a Peirce Quantum chassis. Link: YFD

Santa Clara County FIre Department keeps this 1997 Smeal Ladder truck at El Monte Fire Station on the grounds of Foothill College in Los Altos Hills. This photo was taken while Truck 14 was in quarters one April evening in 2009.The truck was built on a HME chassis.