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New home for Addison tower ladder

Former Addison FD Truck 137 is now Little Creek Fire Co Ladder 54 in Delaware

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Bill Friedrich photo

thanks Josh

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8 Comments

#1 by Tim on December 4, 2020 - 7:45 PM

Naperville doesn’t run a 75 foot quint.
#2 by Big Moe on December 4, 2020 - 4:28 PM

75′ quints are a sham perpetrated on the fire service by the manufactures to enrich themselves. The plan is to upsell a much more expensive quint to a dept that originally wanted an engine, selling the multi tasking jack of all trades “abilities” of short quints. unfortunately they are masters of nothing other than staff reductions; Richmond, Va, St. Louis, MO, Naperville, etc. How many fires on this site have you seen come up short?
Or they have to position for a pre-connect stretch and not the aerial. Plan carefully and honestly.
#3 by Mike C on December 4, 2020 - 9:43 AM

75′ Quints are very ineffective rigs. Short sticks that don’t reach, and very limited hose and tool storage. They look good to the politicians that don’t know anything about the fire service and that’s about it!
#4 by The DH on December 3, 2020 - 6:51 PM

Harry, to elaborate on what Mike said…they used to run 3 engines and a tower. The tower was only staffed by 2, and the backstep at that house would jump between the rigs, if one went out of town. With the quints, they were able to staff 3 fire rigs with 3 and 3 medics. I don’t recall off the top of my head right now specifics, but they basically have 2 fire rigs up now and 3-4 medics. Station 72 is typically just an ambo crew…
#5 by Mike on December 3, 2020 - 4:00 PM

Harry I say that because it doesn’t work for them. Many of their members where threatened by management if they talked publicly about how bad these apparatus are. They’re all 75’ quints. They don’t work. What they did was allow staffing to be reduced and become more dependent on the neighboring towns for resources.
#6 by harry on December 3, 2020 - 3:33 PM

mike why would u say that it works for them
#7 by Mike on December 3, 2020 - 8:25 AM

Another department that made a “smart” move by getting rid of all of its apparatus and going with 3 useless quints.
#8 by crabbymilton on December 3, 2020 - 7:23 AM

Looks good for it’s age and hopefully it will provide good service.