What is your preference for a Aerial Operations?

[RWC130 594]

What is your preference for Aerial Operations?

 

Why?

 

Aerial Ladder

 

Aerial Platform

 

Aerial Scope

 

 

[vodoly 535]

Aerial platform with dual monitors My 2nd choice a streight stick pre piped water way

Edited April 13, 2016 by vodoly

[Newburgher 241]

Rear mount, 100' Aerials:

1- We can't afford tillers

2-99% of the time, we are working through wires, not enough room for a tower ladder

3-Modern tower ladders in our surrounding area have way too much tail swing to even maneuver around our streets in the warm weather, forget about when there are snow banks and even tighter streets and intersections.

4-99% of our fires, the truck is needed for roof/building access, not fly pipe operations.

5-The aerial tip is easier to get on and off of than crawling under a bar in the Tower's dumpster.

 

When we need exterior water flows, we do call for a tower ladder, and have them included on the 2nd alarm for our Broadway commercial buildings. They are just too big and

clumsy to use for the majority of our calls and fires.

[S1720G 62]

TL. Easiest way to deliver members to other parts of the yard. Allows for safe distance keeping . 

 

Edited April 13, 2016 by S1720G

[FirNaTine 370]

Ladder Tower. No you have the best of both worlds!

[16fire5 693]

Rear mount Aerials

Generally less room needed to set up

The stick goes up fast-this is really nice when the person is hanging out the window on arrival.  

 

Tower Ladders

Nice stable platform to work from when opening up cornices and pulling off window bars or HUD windows

Much easier to remove trapped occupants when the angle of the aerial would be extreme or you have elderly or kids

You throw all your stuff in the bucket and ride it up freshly ready to work instead of carrying saw and tools up steep climb to 75' rooftop and then having to cut

The distance between the last axle and rear of the rig make navigating them in tight urban areas nearly impossible.  

 

The single rear axle baker aerielscopes of old were probably one of the most functional firefighting apparatus ever made with their short wheelbase and amazing versatility.  

 

Tiller's deserve a mention for their ability to get into prohibitively tight places and they have a great deal of compartment and ground ladder space.  

 

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