Been in the service for awhile and I always wondered why each and every peice of equipment has to be custom. We paid 138k in 1984 230k in 1989 and 500k 2 years ago for engines.I understand inflation but I'm sure if Seagrave, Pierce, KME etc could build one or two type of engines that 400k would go back down to 250-300K. Delivery times would be reduced.
Maybe do what the car industry does and offer limited options. High/low cabinet sides, certain number of discharges/intakes etc.
While I know this would never happen because for some strange reason your fires are different from mine, but think how much easier and cheaper it would be.
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