We're a small department and back in 92 we bought a Squrt. We almost bought a 55ft Snorkel. Well we had the engine for almost 3 years and never once raised the boom besides in training. One Sunday we got hit out for a 2pc engine assist in PA at a mushroom fire. We set up at the base of a 30 foot cliff and used the boom. If anyone knows mushrooms they know what thier grown in....POOP. When we were done we were all walking in 2 feet of run off.....2 feet of poopy water.
2 days later the City of Wilmington had a 3 alarm going on and we responded. The only problem was everyones gear smelled like $hit (it was too nasty to call poop by then) so we had to scramble to piece clean gear together.
Before the end of the week we had another assist for a 2 alarm fire.
3 years of never using the boom and 1 week using it 3 tiimes. I think thats the busiest week we ever had. Of course we had busy days, stroms and stuff but for working alarms we had 2 house fires twice.
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