The first week of September 2009 Mountain View Fire Department placed it’s new 100′ TDA Ladder Truck into service. The crew of Truck one tell me earlier this same day was the truck’s first run.Truck 1 is now a 2009 Pierce Tractor Drawn Aerial, built on a Peirce Quantum chassis. Link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/yfd/3919085314/
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In March 2011 I got a look around San Jose Fire Department’s new Fire Station 2, on Alum Rock.San Jose Fire Department Ladder Truck 2 is a 1992 Westates built rig with a 65′ rear mount Telesquirt Aerial Ladder.For more images of Fire Station 2, both inside and outside, check out YourFireDepartment.org San Jose Station [...]
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On Saturday Novemember 13, 2010 Sunnyvale Department of Public Safety responded to multiple 911 calls for an appartment building on fire. The flames destroyed several units during the 3 alarm incident, displacing 10 residents.Mutual aid units included Santa Clara City Truck 2, a 2009 Pierce Arrow XT with a 105′ rear mounted aerial.See the full [...]
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At around 4:16am on July 5th, San Jose Fire Department received reports of an elementary school on fire. By 5:30am the incident had escalated to 6 alarms, leaving the main building of San Jose Unified’s Trace Elementary Schol containing the library, media center and 16 classrooms, destroyed.Santa Clara Fire Department responded several units to the [...]
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San Jose Fire Department Truck 18 seen at the BFO Training tower in November, 2009.Truck 18 is a 1995 Simon built aerial appliance with a 75′ rear mounted LTI ladder. from YFD
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Mountain View Fire Department recently handled a 3rd alarm fire on Ortega Ave following a soldering accident during some plumbing work. The fire got inside the walls and was difficult to find or track.In addition to Mountain View Fire Department units from Palo Alto Fire, Santa Clara County Fire Department and from Moffett Field the [...]
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San Jose Fire Department responded to reports of an overturned tanker on the 101 Freeway South of San Jose in October, 2010. Upon arrival they discovered a tanker containing over 7000 gallons of hot molten wax was blocking the freeway.The San Jose Hazardous Incident Team sealed up the small leaks at the top of the [...]
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Ottawa Fire Service’s Ladder 11 ladder truck is a Carl Thibault-built Vulcan Series. It has a sign on the ladder with a dragon on the Italian flag, indicating that its home fire station, Station #2 on Preston Street, is in the general vicinity of both Ottawa’s Little Italy (along Preston Street) and Ottawa’s Chinatown (along [...]
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the ladder truck from the wooster fire department in the wayne county memorial day parade in wooster, ohio.
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San Jose Fire Department responded to reports of a garage fire on Mayfield rd, San Jose, December 2010. upon arrival units discovered smoke and flame coming from the Delta side of the residence, and threatening the adjoining property, as well as a boat and vehicles in front of the garage.A Second Alarm was struck by [...]
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