What is the Oldest Fire Apparatus You Have In Service In Your Department?

In the department I belong, we have a 29 year old American LaFrance Ladder Truck. You would never know that by looking at it, and it is still in great machanical shape as well.

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Permalink Reply by Davin Eshelman on March 26, 2010 at 12:18pm

This is our oldest piece here. 1975 Seagrave 100 ft. Ladder Rear mount. Barely gets used. Stills runs like a charm tho

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Permalink Reply by Robert T. Marchetti on March 26, 2010 at 1:00pm

Our Department has a 1970 FMC John Bean High Pressure Fog pumper which we still use for suppression of Brush Fires because you can PUMP AND ROLL with the apparatus to chase the fire through fields and like terrain. 1 firefighter on each side in the back using the pistol grip type booster line. This pump puts out 940 psi. through a 3/4 inch line.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Huff on June 7, 2010 at 7:46am

God love them old Power Wagons! I've never seen any Chrysler inline 6- 251 flathead or slant 6 that could be stopped.

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Permalink Reply by Lee Huff on June 7, 2010 at 8:03am

You're probably thinking of the Kaiser jeeps

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Permalink Reply by Todd Seaney on June 7, 2010 at 9:29am

A 1993 Mack

Before that it was a 1964 Ford we sold couple of years ago

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Permalink Reply by Reg Mathis on June 7, 2010 at 11:33am

Probably our 1960 model Pump Operator/Engineer.....oh wait, that's ME!

I guess I AM the oldest apparatus we have!

Reg

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Permalink Reply by Evgenie Frolov from Russia on June 7, 2010 at 3:31pm

Oh. What to tell about Russia. At us of 80 percent of technics-second-hand articles.
It is very sad.

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Permalink Reply by Jeremy Pickett on June 7, 2010 at 5:35pm

We have a tanker that is the oldest in our county. I'm not exactly sure what year is was made, but it was in the 50's. We also have a 1963 Army Jeep that we made into a brush truck.

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Permalink Reply by Norm Tindell on June 7, 2010 at 7:48pm

She's a beaut!

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Permalink Reply by Joe Cleer on August 5, 2010 at 11:21am

Hi Padre Pete, We also have a 1914 Hallock Chemical truck here in West Farmington Oh. Tom Doyle (owner of The Lil wiz fire museum in Medina Oh) tracked us down last summer. He told us about your truck. Ours too, is the first in the county. West Farmington is 10 miles NE of Warren which is where WD Packard is from, He is one the founders of the Packard autmobile. Tom Doyle said in his 4 years of searching for Medina's Hallock truck he found out that there was 22 built. He knows of only 4 left. Yours, the one he bought in Fl, one in Cali. and ours. Ours has not been refurbed and only work that has been done to it was to keep it in good running order. Her only duty now is to carry the Grand Marshall for our town parade every July.

Joe