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Maintenance Of Your Apparatus
The county where my fire company operates provides a maintenance program for all emergency and county operated vehicles. If it belongs to a volunteer fire company it is place on the county maintenance along with county owned apparatus for up keep. This includes sending the vehicle out to contracted vendors for repairs that can't be done at the county facility which would handle oil changes, lubing and minor repairs.
The county also has refueling sites on a computer systems which keeps track of units mileage use and will alert for need of maintenance. Thou engine hours may differ from mileage it's still up to a engineer or tech to arrange maintenance for a unit.
The county also has mobile maintenance vehicle that will come out to the station to change oil and lube a unit.
For towing the county does not have a large tow truck so contracted vendors are used for large apparatus while others are towed by county operated tow trucks which handle small vehicles like fire or police cars. Most of the EMS units are medium size trucks chassis so they are handle with medium size tow trucks the county has. They will at times call a contracted tow company to tow in a unit when a county tow truck is not available.
Most cities or and some charted counties would have vehicle maintenance programs. What do other depts do about having their apparatus maintained or when need of repair?
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Permalink Reply by John Crabbe on
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We have 2 fulltime mechanics (1 current vacancy) that do the regular maintanence and repairs of the rigs. We also do regular checks and light maintanence of the rigs in the stations.
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Permalink Reply by Josh Chambers on
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We handle all of our maintenance and minor repairs in house. We have several FF's that are mechanics by trade so it works well for us. If something major needs repaired we either have someone come in and do it or send it out to be repaired.
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Permalink Reply by ashfire on
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Has any dept ever had to contract a maintenance service provider to do the services on their apparatus? Years ago before our county established it's own county maintenance services they contracted with a maintenance service provider that set up garages around the county so units wouldn't have to travel too far from their areas.
Right now the county is using a contract provider to operate and service its transportation buses for commuters in the county.
The fire service has had a maintenance facility which moved from a cramped rental building to a building which they share with a rental company but there is more space to park apparatus waiting for service or sent out to other vendors.
I would guess some depts may have the fire apparatus dealer they bought their unit from or a local heavy trauck dealer do some preventive maintenace.
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