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A few shots from a great training weekend for the surrounding area Fire Service Explorer Posts

The Breast Cancer Awareness Truck making it's way around our great Country

The Wassaic Fleet 69-11 69-12 69-31 69-51 69-61 69-71 photos by Marie Herow (2007)

EXACTLY RWC. Surely alot of planning went into the layout and setup this vehicle, WELL DONE!!!!

Dan great camera work, very productive day it looks like.

great shots Dan and by the way thanks for draining the cascade, we had no air for the explorers on Sunday!!!!!\ Looks like another fine training day, Carl Q props to you.

Just a few shots showing our new tanker and the old tanker Together on delivery day The new 69-31 The old 69-31 on pickup day at the Pierce plant after refurb -1988

We have only used the tanker a few times (not a bad thing), once in district and it has performed excellent. We have always used our tankers more on mutual aid runs than in district. My avatar photo (photo by Ed Harvey) shows the new tanker dumping water at a live burn in Lakeville CT. I have been waiting for signman to chime in here as he was the truck committee chair for the tanker and did 95% of the work on the specs.

thanks, the committee spent alot of time and field trips around the area and to shows to see what other depts were using and doing and the end result is a very well laid out tanker that is very functional.

You are correct, that is the current code and was also addressed in the 1984 Title 9 code as well. Not sure but I do not believe it was before 1984.

Well there are several built before than that all there may be a door that has glass panes and provides NO fire protection whatever, as my old Chief used to say "Pre-existing nonconforming"

This makes it easier to see them together, before and after.

Yeah Pierce did an awesome job, when it came home alot of people did not believe it was actually the same truck. One other note it was our first blue truck and the start of the blue crew. The blue color was taken from another upstate dept. named Peru, we saw their Pierce/Lance pumper at the NYS Chief's show in 88 and took pics and brought them back to the membership and the rest is history.

Pic of New Tanker at the FDIC show

here is a picture of the old tanker before refurb.

New tanker is a 2007 International Chassis and a Smeal Body, it carries 3000 gallons with a 1250 pump and has three 10' dumps and carries full set of hand tools as well as SCBA, two 3" fills at rear with 2 1/2" storz fittings for easy connect/disconnect at fill site. Fold down racks for porta tank and ladders, preconnected deck gun, 500' of 5" supply line, chimney fire kit and rear camera for backing. Old Tanker was a 1974 Ford Cab over, that was refurbed in 1988 by Pierce, carried 2000 gals of water and had a 250 gpm pump, had 3-10" dumps, carried two porta tanks and 500' of 3" hose, it was a water hauler only, but it served the rural area of the Harlem Valley and CT. for 33 years very well.

If there was a fire code when the house was built.

click on link, http://www.fireengineering.com/ and once opened on the top center of the page you will see simulations, click on it go down and you will see one for a garage fire, bring up the incident and good luck saving the house.

Nate thanks for sharing.