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Post by genseeker on Jul 4, 2014 22:42:05 GMT -6
Here are some of my favs, a couple old trucks and one very unusual truck. We use a system known as "mutual aid". If you look at the department names you'll notice that any given department has only 1 or 2 trucks here. Mutual aid means they are watching over other districts so every department can participate. Also, you might notice that each department has a 2# designation, like department 25 is Cricket VFD. So all their truck numbers start with 25. "Patricia" from Iredell County 
Brush buggy this is an 80's model Humvee  Cricket FD logo  Broadway FD memory truck  Only snorkel in the county  Goshen still uses this old truck for fires  Old truck from my community used once in a while for fires, in spite of its age  Used for accidents/injuries in really rugged terrain  |
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Post by Bashan on Jul 4, 2014 22:50:26 GMT -6
Lets move it to the pix board and then post away! Put as many pix on here as you want....60 is fine! Rich
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Post by cyborg on Jul 4, 2014 22:55:36 GMT -6
the pink firetruck is totally you Rich
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Post by Bashan on Jul 4, 2014 23:36:17 GMT -6
Nice Buttercup......real nice. You know that tuTOOO! you like? Forget it brohau....it now takes coins only. Buy them at the front desk.
Thank you Gen, very nice pix and a sweet post. Rich
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Post by genseeker on Jul 4, 2014 23:36:42 GMT -6
There are actually quite a few of them around the country. They are to promote breast cancer awareness. I know Charlotte NC has one, and another somewhere in the Triad (Greensboro/High Point/Winston Salem). This particular truck is called "Patricia" and was painted in 2012. It belongs to a neighboring county.
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Post by genseeker on Jul 4, 2014 23:47:24 GMT -6
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Post by genseeker on Jul 5, 2014 0:18:36 GMT -6
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Post by genseeker on Jul 5, 2014 0:23:22 GMT -6
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Post by genseeker on Jul 5, 2014 0:25:14 GMT -6
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Post by genseeker on Jul 5, 2014 0:26:28 GMT -6
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Post by genseeker on Jul 5, 2014 0:28:32 GMT -6
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Post by cyborg on Jul 5, 2014 7:24:46 GMT -6
it's a shortened nickname for big wreckers,,,toadsmasher,,,and i still think the pink truck matches Riches undies perfect,,,nice color coordination big guy
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Post by cyborg on Jul 5, 2014 7:31:47 GMT -6
I love the old ones,,,great old beasts,,,there's a few laying around in fields here moldering,,metal is ok it's just everything else is shot,,,,no place to store them,,,i'd love to pull off a restoration on one or two
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Post by genseeker on Jul 5, 2014 12:09:09 GMT -6
I would love to restore an old truck as well. My dad was a firefighter until I was 5 yrs old at Station #3 in Myrtle Beach, SC. We also used to watch Emergency! every Sat night together if he wasn't on duty and if he was, then my mom let me stay up to watch it anyways. My dad always wanted to get an old truck and restore it for parades. Shortly before he died, I actually won a bid on an old Seagraves truck, similar to the ones in the photos here. Unfortunately, my dad passed away just a couple days later. I emailed the seller on Ebay and explained what happened and told him he could just re-auction the truck. He did and refunded me the money I had already paid.
The old truck with the faded paint near the bottom of the first post is actually the first truck Millers Creek bought. When it was retired from service, they kept it around and used it to visit schools and stuff. It's never been repainted and I have seen it at the department as a stand-by when they've been out for a big fire. They've rebuilt the engine and keep all the equipment working well.
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Post by Bashan on Jul 5, 2014 19:23:10 GMT -6
How do you know the color of my frillies? Not you Gen, I'm talking to Gear Breath. Oh...that's right....Chiles....the big margs...I forgot, an unfortunate evening. Hey, he was buying folks! I never turn down a two gallon marg! They're good for 20 to 30 minutes. I'm still not paying for those pix Beryllium Brain, you can send them to the Toledo Blade all you want, I don't care. I've been submitting images for years and they continue to ignore me:
That's as far as I can get off of the ground and my feet aren't really that dirty.
Gen, I am so sorry, your pictures, and your stories of your childhood are wonderful, this is all Cyborg's fault.
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