chris498

Nice! Thanks for the response.

Bueller?

Any update on the winning bid?

This is a LADDER. It is not replacing any Engine! Engine 186 will be sold in the near future, and a new Engine has been ordered. Somers needs to have 5 Engines and 2 Ladders to properly cover the populated areas of the District.

Ladder 48 will not be in service for a while, yet. We still need to qualify driver/operators, purchase some equipment and mount the equipment.

It will eventually be housed in Somers Fire House, once the doors are raised, in the next few weeks.

Who is building the new engine that was ordered and when is it due? Thanks for the heads up!

156 is now in MA... not 155 - Doh!

It appears that old 155 has found a new home in Shelburne Falls, MA. Sad to see that one go - imo - she was a real beauty!

And finally U-15

Did they get rid of the 1991 Pierce Lance pumper? If so - does anyone know where it went? Thanks for your help!

Best - Chris

Telesquirt was made by Snorkle not LTI. The product was first introduced around 1970 or 1971 and was available in 50ft. and 75ft. versions. Later 65ft. and 55ft. models were introduced. Snorkle was purchased by American Lafrance in the late 1990's.

Oh stop spreading false Seagrave wooooes. They are doing fine. Check their website and see what is going on.

Has any progress been made with the new firehouse?

Actually Katonh's boat was purchased after Floyd. And it has been out since it was purchased.

On an interesting note, Hahn once built the bodywork for many Mack fire apparatus between 1958 and say 1962. Some Westchester Mack deliveries with Hahn bodywork include:

Chappaqua NY 1960 Mack C -85 pumper # 1134

North Tarrytown (Rescue Hose) 1960 Mack C pumper.

Bedford Village 1962 Mack B pumper.

Millwood Mack B95 Tanker Pumper with Tandem Axles # 1144.

Those are the only ones I know of, however there may have been more. That information is thanks to Frank Boyd.

Correct, Chappaqua had a 1983 Hahn 106ft. Firespire RMA.

New Canaan CT. Still opertes a 1976 Hahn Pumper as a spare unit. They also had a 1979 Hahn pumper which was rebuilt with a Pierce cab and body. That truck has been retired.

Bedford Hills had a 1979 International Hahn pumper that was recently retired.

Archville also had a 1965 International/Hahn pumper. The rig was white and sported a Cincinatti Cab.

Ossining had a 1976 Hahn pumper, retired in 1999 by a Seagrave.

New City (Rockland Co.) had 1976 and 1982 Hahn Pumpers.

Orangeburg (Rockland Co.) has Hahn pumpers from 1982 and 1986. They owned at one point a Hahn/LTI tower ladder from the late 1970's.

Tallman (Rockland Co.) had a Hahn/Saulsbury Rescue which has been retired and a 1977 Hahn pumper that was refurbed with a new Pierce cab and body.... I believe it has been retired.

Spring Valley (Rockland Co.) Columbian Engine Co. had a 1977 Hahn Pumper which was lime yellow... It retired around 1995, replaced by a blue Sutphen pumper.

West Nyack (Rockland Co.) has a 1985 Hahn Pumper.

Verplanck has a lime green Hahn Pumper of 1980 vintage.

New Hamburg Company 2. (Dutch. Co.) has a 1982/3 Hahn pumper in service. It is Yellow and White.

Chappaqua's Engine 144 was a 1974 American Lafrance Pacemaker, not a Hahn.

Great to hear Daday! Best wish es to you and the Mrs. !!!!! :-P

Check this out.... I've been checking back for updates on this rig for months and months now.... can'twait to see it!!!!

http://www.ovfc28.org/tower%2028%20ordered.htm

Odenton is a community in Anne Arundel County MD. They have two other super nice Seagraves too.

I saw a pic online at firepics.net

Actually Sutphen has built a few towers on International Chassis' and in the early days (late 60's and 70's) Sutphen built towers on Ford, GMC, and International Chassis.

I saw a picture of this truck from the FDIC convention in Indianapolis...... It is blue and grey...... I've gotta see this thing up close, it actually looks pretty sharp!

Brewster's rig is bigger than a pickup. It is a 1978 Ford F-750 with Oren Body Work.

I have a question regarding Washington Engine's new quint. I thought, and I could be wrong that Washington Engine ran the rescue operations (Jaws at least) for Tarrytown FD...... if that is true, is the new Tower going to carry rescue tools..... and furthermore, if they do handle the rescue ops, then why a quint and not a rescue pumper.

OR, if Washington Engine is not responsible for rescue ops in Tarrytown, which company is?

Not soooo far fetched..... NYSPD Cars were black and white in the 1960's.

Rescue Hose currently runs a 1985 Pierce Arrow pumper.

Rye had two tillers in service, and ran two tillers for the better half of the 20th century, one is still in service. Ladder 25 was a 1975 Seagrave 100, the other tiller is a 1986 Spartan Tractor mated to a 1956 Maxim 85ft TIller. The 1975 Seagrave replaced a 1929 Seagrave 75ft. Wooden spring hoisted aerial which is now on display at the museum in Hudson........

Village of Mamaroneck had a tiller similar to this one, which was replaced by the 1965 Seagrave Tiller which was replaced by the current Sutphen.

Harrison also had a Seagrave 100ft. Tiller that dated back to the mid-1960's both trucks were open cabs.

Dobbs Ferry replaced their tiller in 1990 with the current aerialscope. The Dobbs hook and ladder was a 100ft. American Lafrance...... the tiller dated back to the late 1940's and the tractor was a 1970 or '71..... it later served White Plains FD as a spare for a few years in the early 1990's. Before the 1971/4X tiller there was also a 192X's ALF tiller with a wooden spring hoisted aerial

White Plains had a 1976 Maxim 100ft. Tiller which was replaced in the mid-1980's by the LTI remount which is the current spare. They also ran a 196X 85ft. open cab tiller well into the 1990's, and a 195X American LaFrance 85ft. Tiller open cab.

Hastings had a 1930 Ahrens Fox 85ft. spring hoisted wooden aerial that later served Patterson NJ, a 1949 ALF open cab 100ft. TIller, and a 1962 ALF 100ft tiller (which later was used by Albany as a spare).

Port Chester at one point had two identical ALF Tillers, both open cabs.... one was a 1948 and the other was a 195X...... there were serveral earlier tillers as well.

Town of Mamaroneck had a 1940 ALF open cab tiller, it was replaced in 1970 or '71 by the white ALF rearmount.

Mount Vernon also had at least one tiller built by Seagrave that dated to the mid-1940's....

For more accurate dates, check the Protection from the past section on the front page. Also, if you have info on departments like Mt. Vernon, New Rochelle, Yonkers and White Plains, I would love to have accurate infor on the rigs that once served those communities.

Gerstenslager :-P