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"Nicknames" for Your Apparatus?
So... I'm just curious as to some of the general and more specific names given to apparatus from the US and around the world... for example, our pumper is called an engine (yeah, i know alot of people call it that), airel apparatus around our area are refered to as towers, ladders, airel's, trucks... an ambulance is known as a bus or a rig.
More specifically... we have a huge tanker that we call the whale and our older pumper is known as the "popemobile" due to the very high roof on the crew area.
More specifically... we have a huge tanker that we call the whale and our older pumper is known as the "popemobile" due to the very high roof on the crew area.
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Permalink Reply by Chris on
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On a different note, I can't believe how old some of your motors are? Our Standing Orders state no appliance will be more than 15 years old. Are you guys funded by a state government? I'm not sure how it all works over there.
Cheers Guys
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Permalink Reply by Allen on
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back when i 1st joined my department, we had an old lime green pumper that only had 2 speeds. Slow and Slower therefore it was given the name of Slimer due to the fact it looked like slimer and ran like snot! Needless to say, it has officialy been retired and sent to Mexico.
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Permalink Reply by Dustin J. Millis on
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Yeah Chris... most volunteer dept's over here struggle with funding and make due with just about any apparatus they can. My dept. has been very blessed with the equipment that we have but there are alot of rural dept's whose frontline engine may be 20 or 25 years old.
You can go to indianafiretrucks.com and just start clicking on some of the smaller towns to see what kind of equipment those guys make due with.
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Cool, I thought it may have been the case. It makes you realise your luck, we operate an '09 build scania class 3 metro rescue pumper, an '02 build izuzu class 2 metro rescue pumper and a '98 build izuzu class 1 4x4 tanker (I think you call these a "brush truck"). Your trucks do have a shitload of character though and its a credit to you just how much effort goes into keeping the old girls looking so fine! Thanks for the reply mate, I'll check it out :)
Cheers
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Permalink Reply by Jacob on
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We just replaced our old equipment/rescue van...(85' chevy box truck/van)...Anyhow, it was nicknamed "TAZ", because we had logo of tazmanian devil with a pair or cutters and spreaders.....it was replaced with a 08' GMC 5500 diesel....... Bye bye TAZ......
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LOL!!!!! 15 years old!!! That's is hilarious..... We run off of 6 trucks....Only 3 of them are under 10 years old.... The rest of them are 1985 all the way to 78....Its not like fire trucks grow on trees ya know.... We just have to make due with what we got... We are fortunate to have all this equipment that runs and runs hard...
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Permalink Reply by Scott Lokker on
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Yup, sounds like an almost daily ritual around our place.
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We had an old 1980's GMC Brigider that was a 3000 gallon tanker. It had a Detriot Diesel that would constantly leak oil even if it never turned a mile. We called her "The Exxon Valdez".
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Permalink Reply by Yagoub A. Yagoub on
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Yes, we use the numper and names
we use numpers for company's work such as maintenance (004, 001ex).
But in fire department we use the names as fire Language (airel ladder, Eng 1, mini pumper, ex)
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Teel on
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Some of the guys in the company calls the squad/engine plainly "The Squad" however our foam unit is known all around the dept, and some mutual aid depts as "Bubbles"
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I hope my comment was not taken in anyway derogitory :) I didn't realise you guys buy alot of your own gear. Its an odd concept to me, our brigade is paid and is the 5th largest fire service in the world and completly govornment funded. Our Rural Fire Service is vollie, but even though they are not paid they still have tankers supplied by government funding. Again, I was not having a dig at your gear, (Like I said, they are beautiful motors) just wondering how it is done over there.
Cheers mate
p.s. This is the oldest pumper at our station, our social club owns it, a 1931 dennis 250 "ACE"
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I didnt take it as derogitory at all Chris. Things are done differently all over the world. One of the main points of this site is to find out how other people do things. Stay safe brother
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