Pierce Fire Apparatus

For those who believe the best fire trucks in the world are manufactured in Appleton, Wisconsin.

These Lances were purchased in 1993

as two of 4, 3 pumps(1250 x500) and a light rescue (with a 300gpm tank and pump)
and our New Pierce Pump is sitting in the shop waiting for a radio,and outfitting and training I dont have any photos of it yet but will post some asap, Old Engine 4 has been traditionally the second busiest engine in the city over its lifetime and before , Although relocation/coverage does reduce some runswe have the only 2 engine house these days so anytimesomeone is off duty we relocate we prolly do around 4000 runs a year give or take a few the rigs seen a lotta of abuse was one of the first companies with 5 inch LDH and was used as a tactical water company in the early years, its best feature is, short wheelbase excellant inner city rig sort like driving the Bronco rather then a standard standard pick up.... we are running the 4 lances, 3 quantums , A quint and a truck with all steer, a standard truck, and a platform which was just involved in a crash, another standard truck, we have 3 hahns and 3 mack CF pumps in spare service as well as a Baker tower, that well is now in front line service again..lol along with the New 2 pumps just delivered we also have one other Pierce pump, with class a and Foam aboard Its nearly complete Pierce fleet



what are you guys running for pierces?
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    Joe Sheldon

    1990 Dash Pumper (for sale)
    1999 Saber Pumper
    2007 Impel Rear Mount Rescue Pumper (delivery Dec. 2007)

    Color: red with 1-6-1 white striping.

    Pictures and info at http://www.etfd.org/.

    My Chief sells Pierce, so I guess we're a little biased:)

    I personally don't care for the Chicago colors, but all black is badass. I've only seen it on the demo units though. My wife likes Clearwater's (FL) white/pink colors. LOL
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    Brett

    All black is pretty neat. I took this pic at a convention a week ago. It belongs to a department in a neighboring county.

    http://s66.photobucket.com/albums/h269/welker0927/Fire%20Company%20...
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    SMOKEnPipesJim

    Brett If your talking about "mine" They are two of 4 '93 lances we bought 3 pumps and a rescue , we spec'ed em with a short wheelbase ( I don't recall now) because we are a new england city so they are great in many parts of the city, they next purchased 3 quantums each specialized to some extent, one has a foam system as it covers airport and highway, one has a snozzle ,etc.. they are huge with lots of wasted space we have 1 arrow on duty its like 4 years old, and we just took delivery of the two new arrows, training will take place over the next couple weeks for us to get em on line