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 [...]
Old fire truck put out to pasture. Reminds me of an old work horse finally getting a rest. by huntersc
Ten persons, including one Firefighter sustained minor injuries when an LAFD Aerial Ladder Truck and Metro Blue Line Train collided south of Downtown Los Angeles on December 22, 2006. by LAFD
One thing I don’t like about the ladder truck in the Lego Fire Station is that the way its boom is deployed isn’t realistic. It is tricky to add functionality on a model that is this small, but the boom on my truck deploys in the same fashion as the real one. Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/madphysicist/3124065535/
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 [...]
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 [...]
Seagrave 100 ft rear mount fire truck of FDNY Ladder Company 10, responding to a call in Manhattan.Ladder Company 10 is based at “The Ten House” at 124 Liberty St, Manhattan. The Ten House is directly across from where the World Trade Center stood, suffered significant damage and was virtually destroyed on September 11, 2001.This [...]
1960s American LaFrance 900 Fire Truck Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/mokastet/
Cincinnati, Ohio Truck 292007 Seagrave100′ AerialSerial #75849 Model: TP 05 Steve Hagy photo.Cincinnati purchased three of these Seagrave aerials in 2007. In addition to this apparatus which is stationed with Engine 29 at Liberty & Linn Streets in the West End, Truck 23 (Walnut Hills) and Truck 32 (Avondale) received a new Seagrave. Link: kyfireenginephoto