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Orland Fire Protection District history

This from Mike Summa for #TBT:

For TBT-This was the Orland FPD’s Engine 114, a 19?/Ford C 8000/Towers 1500/1000.  Enjoy and comment.

Mike Summa

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• #1 by Mike hellmuth on August 18, 2023 - 2:50 PM

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  Thanks Tim I was thinking about an older C model Ford regular cab back in the old days that was involved in a wreck with 3 firefighters riding the tail board they were responding to a call might have been mutual aid in the winter on 143rd street that was icy and on a hill and rolled it the guys all survived I can’t remember the year but I was still in high school at Sandburg

• #2 by Tim on August 18, 2023 - 1:08 PM

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  Mike H. this rig was actually after majority of the American LaFrances. This rig is an 80 or 81 with 1000GPM pump and either 500/750 tank, I can’t remember. They had 2 older lafrance engines that were refurbed with new Century 2000 series cabs. Those rigs were a 71 and a 74 or 75, I believe and refurbed in 88/89. Then they had a 1980 American LaFrance with a Century cab.

• #3 by Mike hellmuth on August 17, 2023 - 7:31 PM

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  I believe this could be the last full size commercial engine before the village
  boom and the American Lafrance era……

• #4 by MABAS 21 on August 17, 2023 - 4:39 PM

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  I believe Orland FPD had this as a reserve engine until the early or mid 90’s

• #5 by crabbymilton on August 17, 2023 - 11:58 AM

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  Very long production life too. From 1957 until 1990.

• #6 by Martin on August 17, 2023 - 9:58 AM

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  Definitely a popular apparatus at one point.