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• #1 by Mike Mc on August 22, 2016 - 8:27 AM

  

  I doubt if the real motive is fire ground recognition. Trying to hide from the public and media just how many spare rigs are in use makes much more sense to me. A couple of weeks ago one of the newspapers finally mentioned the issue – what a remarkable coincidence! Someone will get an “at a boy” from the 5th floor for this one. Assuming of course, the idea didn’t come directly from the 5th floor.

• #2 by 9 man squad on August 21, 2016 - 5:57 PM

  

  It would be more logical to have the plates at throop street.

• #3 by Marty Coyne on August 19, 2016 - 6:29 PM

  

  Bill the CFD ambos have been running with them for a while. 56 has been in a spare for a while as their rig like many of the new rigs has two cracked A posts and ball joints. This is common on the throwaway crap the city bought.

• #4 by Mike on August 19, 2016 - 5:27 PM

  

  What is sad is that someone actually spent time thinking about this and writing up a procedure for this. Also this must mean that there are a lot of spares being used everyday and it’s hard for the battalion chiefs to keep track of companies since everyone is in spares.

• #5 by Bill Post on August 19, 2016 - 4:07 PM

  

  It’s funny that this article was printed on line today as a few hours ago I saw Ambulance 56 responding with one of the new placards on it and it as the first thing that I had noticed besides the spare rig itself.

• #6 by FFPM571 on August 19, 2016 - 1:44 PM

  

  Hope they have extras on hand…

• #7 by Brian on August 19, 2016 - 12:36 PM

  

  Surprised it took this long to happen from an on scene identification stand point

• #8 by Danny on August 19, 2016 - 11:04 AM

  

  Least the spares can be identified now…. and with that red numbering on a white square it will stick out for sure

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