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Richmond Engine is one of two Staten Island volunteer fire companies, the other being Oceanic H&L Company No. 1 founded in 1881.. Richmond Engine is dispatched by the Staten Island Communications Office of the Fire Department of New York (FDNY) and operates on the FDNY Staten Island frequency.
Link Trainer at Freeman Field, Seymour, Indiana. Freeman Field was a US Army Air Force field in World War II. Link and his company had struggled through the Depression years, but after gaining Air Corps interest the business expanded rapidly and during World War II, the AN-T-18 Basic Instrument Trainer, known to tens of thousands of fledgling pilots as the "Blue Box" (although it was painted ...
The first apparatus used as Engine 51 for Emergency! was a 1965 Crown Firecoach Triple. It has a pump producing 1,250 gallons per minute, a 935 cubic inch Hall-Scott gasoline engine producing 195 or 215 horsepower.
This fire engine, used by the Toronto Fire Services, is an example of firefighting apparatus. A firefighting apparatus (North American English) [1] or firefighting appliance (UK English) [2] describes any vehicle that has been customized for use during firefighting operations. These vehicles are highly customized depending on their needs and ...
A turntable ladder (TL) is an aerial apparatus with a large ladder mounted on a pivot which resembles a turntable, giving it its name. The key functions of a turntable ladder are allowing access or egress of firefighters and fire victims at height, providing a high-level water point for firefighting (elevated master stream), and providing a ...
The company was founded in 1910 by John P Ahrens and Charles H Fox and built its first motorized fire engine in 1911. By the end of the following year production of horse-drawn fire apparatus ceased completely. Since then, over 1500 pieces of fire apparatus were built until 1977.
The Florida facility is a manufacturing site for the custom Saber chassis and Responder line of apparatus. Currently (December 4, 2017) Pierce is the largest manufacturer of firefighting apparatus in the United States. [citation needed] End-users are represented across a larger majority of the planet, including China. The single largest ...
Peter Pirsch & Sons was a firefighting apparatus manufacturer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, United States, between 1900 and 1984. It was claimed to be the first producer of modern, motorized fire engines in the United States. [1] [2]