Yonkers Orders 6 New Ferraras

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Per a reliable source, Yonkers has ordered the following from Ferrara Fire Apparatus under an existing HGAC cooperative purchasing contract:

-4 New Ferrara Ultra Engines, with stainless steel bodies, built to the same spec as the current Engine 303 and Engine 304, assignments pending to replace 2005/2006 American LaFrance Eagles

-1 New Ferrara Inferno Tower Ladder 75' Midmount, built to the same spec as Tower Ladder 71, for assignment to Tower Ladder 75

-1 New Ferrara Inferno 100' HD Rearmount, for assignment to Ladder 74. Ferrara's Aerials are produced by Smeal, and will include the same custom jacking and leveling capabilities of Yonkers current fleet of HME/Smeals.

All assignments are tentative and subject to change.

A new Rescue is also on the drawing board.

[CaptainCharisma 34]

I wish Seagrave had gotten this, but there was no chance since they didn't go out to bid. These are basically written to Seagrave spec.

[61MACKBR1 222]

Per a reliable source, Yonkers has ordered the following from Ferrara Fire Apparatus under an existing HGAC cooperative purchasing contract:

-4 New Ferrara Ultra Engines, with stainless steel bodies, built to the same spec as the current Engine 303 and Engine 304, assignments pending to replace 2005/2006 American LaFrance Eagles

-1 New Ferrara Inferno Tower Ladder 75' Midmount, built to the same spec as Tower Ladder 71, for assignment to Tower Ladder 75

-1 New Ferrara Inferno 100' HD Rearmount, for assignment to Ladder 74. Ferrara's Aerials are produced by Smeal, and will include the same custom jacking and leveling capabilities of Yonkers current fleet of HME/Smeals.

All assignments are tentative and subject to change.

A new Rescue is also on the drawing board.

Very smart move by the City of Yonkers (similar in nature to what New Rochelle is doing). With American LaFrance spare parts becoming less and less 'readily available' keeping ALF units as "Front Line Pieces of Apparatus" is not a wise move for departments currently running with them. Thus, it is a very smart move on the part of the YFD to utilize the HGAC Cooperative Purchasing Contract to begin to replace the Front Line ALF Units with these Ferrara Rigs (with essentially the Pumpers being Ferrara Manufactured apparatus, using the Seagrave Specifications and the Ladder/Tower Ladders essentially being manufactured by Ferrara using the Smeal Specificiations).

I would suspect (but maybe wrong) that the specifications that YFD could be currently drawing up for their New Rescue 1, would be identical to the one the FDNY used for the Purchase of the 5 Heavy Duty Rescue Units (R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5) that were built and delivered by Ferrara.

[AirOne 6]

Do the current ALF Engines have stainless steel bodies?