We mentioned HERE that the Medtec Ambulance line is being closed. The following letter was sent to Medtec dealers:
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Schaumburg’s new truck
Jul 19
Pierce has posted an image of the new truck for Schaumburg on their Flickr site
Pierce Composite
thanks Ron, Josh, Martin, & Tyler
New Pierce in Minooka
Dec 10
The Minooka Fire Protection District in MABAS Division 15 has taken delivery of a new engine from Pierce. No specs are available to us yet other than an Arrow XT chassis, but Martin Nowak spotted this on the Pierce Flickr site. It carries Pierce job number 24634.
New 2011 Pierce Arrow XT top-mount engine for Minooka FPD Engine 1321. Pierce photo
The Bolingbrook Fire Department has two new pieces of apparatus coming:
- 2011 Ford F450/Wheeled Coach 174 is expected to be in town next week and in-service by Christmas (for Medic 2)
- 2012 Pierce Impel PUC 1250/500 for Engine 5 on Rodeo Drive is expected next summer
New area orders from Pierce
Nov 14
Bill Friedrich informs us of the following units that are currently on order from Pierce for area departments.
- Geneva FD – engine on an Impel chassis
- Beecher FPD – engine on an Arrow XT chassis
- Arlington Heights FD – engine on a Quantum chassis
- Channahon FPD – engine on a Quantum chassis
- Norwood Park FPD – engine on an Impel chassis
- Pleasantview FPD – 100′ aerial on a Velocity chassis
- Schaumburg FD – engine on an Impel chassis
- Schaumburg FD – 100′ aerial ladder on a Velocity chassis
Pierce recently completed a 2011 Arrow XT engine for the Rutland-Dundee Fire Protection District in Division 2.
Thanks to Martin Nowak for spotting this on the Pierce Flickr site.
The following information comes to us from Keith Grzadziel, a full-time Firefighter/Paramedic with the Bridgeview Fire Department.
- Berwyn Fire Department has ordered a Pierce PUC, 100′ medium duty aerial quint, with a Velocity cab/chassis. It will have a 1,500-gpm pump, 300-gallon tank, and powered by a Cummins ISX 500hp
- Geneva Fire Department has ordered a Pierce rescue pumper with an Impel cab/chassis, a 1,500-gpm pump, 500 gallons of water and a Cummins ISL 450hp
- Bristol-Kendall FPD has two – Pierce CAFS pumpers on order with Saber cab/chassis, 1,250-gpm pumps, 1,000-gallon tanks and also Cummins ISL 450hp engines
The Lincolnshire-Riverwoods FPD is expecting delivery of their new Pierce 105′ quint next week. It will be black over red with a black ladder similar to the new truck in Homewood.
Lincolnshire Truck 53 is almost complete at Pierce. Lincolnshire-Riverwoods photo
The breakaway tip to the fly section of the ladder is painted green. Lincolnshire-Riverwoods photo
The sign plate on the ladder has been completed. Truck 53 has a Wil-Burt telescoping flood light which can be seen mounted alongside the ladder sign on top of the compartments. Lincolnshire-Riverwoods photo
The driver's side of Truck 53. Compartment door handles and a cover for the pump panel are missing. Lincolnshire-Riverwoods photo
A view of the driver's area in the cab. Lincolnshire-Riverwoods photo
The department added the painted grill with the American flag. Lincolnshire-Riverwoods photo
With the cab tilted, the roof top extensions and the ari conditioner are visible. Lincolnshire-Riverwoods photo
In addition, the first of the existing Lincolnshire-Riverwoods units to have the white roof repainted black is Engine 51 which recently came back from the paint shop. Engine 52 is due to go out for bodywork and a new black roof shortly.
Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Engine 51 is the first unit in the department to have a black roof. This is the new color scheme which the department recently adopted. Larry Shapiro photo
- Countryside FPD rescue pumper from Rosenbauer
- Bloomingdale FPD pumper/tanker from Pierce
- Roselle has an ambulance on order from Medtec on a Ford F-650 chassis
Bloomingdale Fire Station 1 on Bloomingdale Road houses the fire department headquarters and the emergency dispatch center. Larry Shapiro photo
The Bloomingdale Fire Protection District No 1 in MABAS Division 12 has been added to the site. Bloomingdale has three stations though one is strictly used for storage. Station 2 at 6N480 Keeney Road (which has a Roselle address) was originally part of the Keeneyville Fire District. This station has two spare engines and an out-of-service ambulance which may be converted to a dive unit.
This out-of-service ambulance might be converted into a newer dive unit to replace Dive 9 which is assigned a 1997 Freightliner FL50/Medtec. Larry Shapiro photo
Bloomingdale has their own dispatch center in the basement of Station 1 which serves Bloomingdale in addition to the Elk Grove Township Fire Protection District and theItasca Fire Protection District.
Bloomingdale runs a fleet of Pierce apparatus which includes a tower ladder and three engines on a Lance chassis, one engine on an Enforcer chassis, and an engine on a Quantum chassis. They have on order a 2,000-gallon pumper/tanker on a Velocity chassis which is due this year. The two in-service ambulances as well as the Dive Squad all feature boxes built by Horton.
The newest engine in Bloomingdale is this 2005 Pierce Quantum assigned to Engine 1. John Tulipano photo
Prior to becoming a Pierce customer, Bloomingdale was exclusively a Pirsch customer for many years. In 1981, they received the last engine on a custom Pirsch chassis that matched two engines and a 1972 85′ mid-ship quint.
In 1981, Bloomingdale Engine 2 featured the last custom cab built by hand at the Pirsch factory in Kenosha. From this point forward, Pirsch purchased stock cabs from Truck Cab Manufacturers (TCM) and applied a trim package to make their appearance unique to Pirsch products. Larry Shapiro collection
Bloomingdale Truck 4 was built in 1972 to match one Pirsch engine already in the Bloomingdale fleet complete with the edge warning lights. They would later have a total of four matching custom Pirsch units. Larry Shapiro collection
