White Plains Ladder 33

[TheNewLadder32 49]

Hey I was just wondering has there ever been another ladder exactly like this one from White Plains as it is rare and very different. And I know it was done by the city but just wondering if there is another truck close or just like it.

[sfrd18 360]

I believe the exact make/model/style of the rig is unique to White Plains, but there are many aerials w/commercial chassis out there. Most I've seen are single-axle quints, like WPFD's old Ladder 34.

By the way, is that Station 2 on Ferris Ave.?

[TheNewLadder32 49]

I believe the exact make/model/style of the rig is unique to White Plains, but there are many aerials w/commercial chassis out there. Most I've seen are single-axle quints, like WPFD's old Ladder 34.

By the way, is that Station 2 on Ferris Ave.?

Yes that is Station 2 it was in as a spare and I know there are many commercial aerials but I was wondering have there been any other tandem axle quint/ non-quint 105' ft aerials like this.

[fire 1 asst chief 49]

This was the brainchild of a former chief and current DPW commissioner. Strictly a penny pinching move.

Junk from the first day it arrived.

[2231* 20]

This was the brainchild of a former chief and current DPW commissioner. Strictly a penny pinching move.

Junk from the first day it arrived.

what???

[sfrd18 360]

I belive the reason why most of the WPFD's fleet has commercial cabs is to make repairs easier for the city garage/shops, as all of the city's trucks/DPW fleet have commercial cabs as well.

[TheNewLadder32 49]

I belive the reason why most of the WPFD's fleet has commercial cabs is to make repairs easier for the city garage/shops, as all of the city's trucks/DPW fleet have commercial cabs as well.

You are right thats why the engines are the same as the garbage trucks.

[tommyguy 104]

I have been away from White Plains now for fifteen years. And all the guys I knew in WPFD are retired. So maybe this is a dumb question but....

How did they operate with Tower Ladder 6 and Truck 33? (That was a Ford cab?) Weren't both assigned to Station Two and, IIRC, around the same time period?

[TheNewLadder32 49]

I have been away from White Plains now for fifteen years. And all the guys I knew in WPFD are retired. So maybe this is a dumb question but....

How did they operate with Tower Ladder 6 and Truck 33? (That was a Ford cab?) Weren't both assigned to Station Two and, IIRC, around the same time period?

Ladder 33 has been the spare ladder in White Plains for as long as I can remember as im not that old so it operated until White Plains bought the Tower Ladder 6 they have now then it went strictly to spare. They were not assigned at the same time period as the one you see pictured above became a spare in 2009 when the new Ladder 32 came in replacing that truck which was 32. Also it is a Ford cab.

[BCFire05 83]

Yes there is another newer tandem axel commercial aerial. Check out New Berlin's Truck 4. Its a quad-cab Freight Liner '10 or '11 model) set up on the 105' Raptor by Rosenbauer. Just google up New Berlin Fire Department in images and you can see. It's a nice rig.

[tommyguy 104]

Ladder 33 has been the spare ladder in White Plains for as long as I can remember as im not that old so it operated until White Plains bought the Tower Ladder 6 they have now then it went strictly to spare. They were not assigned at the same time period as the one you see pictured above became a spare in 2009 when the new Ladder 32 came in replacing that truck which was 32. Also it is a Ford cab.

Okay I see. Thanks for responding, I do appreciate it.

[fire 1 asst chief 49]

Many years ago the WPFD ladder rundown was: Trk1 (60-control L-32) assigned to fire Hdq'ts

Trk 2 (60 control L-33) assigned to Sta. 2 on Hamilton Ave.

Trk 3 (60 control L-34) assigned to Sta. 7

TL-6 came along with the opening of the current

Sta. 2 which was converted from the old bus garage as part of

urban renewal.

[210 91]

Many years ago the WPFD ladder rundown was: Trk1 (60-control L-32) assigned to fire Hdq'ts

Trk 2 (60 control L-33) assigned to Sta. 2 on Hamilton Ave.

Trk 3 (60 control L-34) assigned to Sta. 7

TL-6 came along with the opening of the current

Sta. 2 which was converted from the old bus garage as part of

urban renewal.

Chief,

In those years past were all three ladders tractor drawn?

[TheNewLadder32 49]

Yes there is another newer tandem axel commercial aerial. Check out New Berlin's Truck 4. Its a quad-cab Freight Liner '10 or '11 model) set up on the 105' Raptor by Rosenbauer. Just google up New Berlin Fire Department in images and you can see. It's a nice rig.

Thanks ill check it out but does any one know if there were any other fords from that year like that ?

[fire 1 asst chief 49]

Going back to the early '60s the only tractor drawn aerial was the 1957 ALF that was assigned to old Sta. 2.

Sometime in the mid to late '60s a Maxim open cab tractor drawn aerial was purchased, followed several years later by another Maxim tractor drawn aerial with a closed cab for driver & tillerman.

[TR54 239]

Old White Plains Laddder Photos

[99subi 121]

truck looks so top heavy.

[TheNewLadder32 49]

truck looks so top heavy.

Ladder is a little longer thren the actual chassis itself.

[sfrd18 360]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't this the old Ladder 32 before it went into the spare pool?

[fire 1 asst chief 49]

Yes it was originally L-32

[DWC295 70]

I don't know the specifics of this truck but Dartmouth, MA (south coast near/New Bedford) has/had a similar type ladder. I haven't see too many in MA.

http://www.firenews.org/mass/DartmouthD2L2.jpg

[TheNewLadder32 49]

I don't know the specifics of this truck but Dartmouth, MA (south coast near/New Bedford) has/had a similar type ladder. I haven't see too many in MA.

http://www.firenews....rtmouthD2L2.jpg

Thats exactly what are Ladder 34 looks like but with a ford chassis instead.