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.
Permalink Reply by Scott on February 10, 2009 at 10:58pm
This truck crappy picture is also known as the bread box or the frihofers truck depending on who you talk to also the UPS truck or the worlds first wind powered and steared fire truck
we use to have an engine that we called "Queen Mary". Queen Mary was a longer then the rest of our trucks and there were very few drivers that could get her into any of our driveways. My Captain at the time was really good at driving her and that was his baby. He could get her into almost anywhere and out again. I drove her once before she was replaced and she was an interesting truck to drive cause of her being to long. When my department got the truck she was the last American LaFrance to be manufactured and she was actually assembled at our firehouse. She was a good truck.
Fort Worth has many names for the various stations....E-18's is Quicksilver, E-32 is Landshark (dive team station), E-16 is Panther, etc. As for the 2 depts I'm at, we just refer to them by their numbers.
Around 20 years ago, my volly department purchased an E-One Cyclone pumper-tanker on a tandem chassis. That apparatus had a 2,000 gallon tank with side-dump capability, carried 4 inch LDH, and had the first pump larger than 1,250 GPM that we'd ever had.