From Tyler Tobolt:
Provided is the complete fleet of the Cary Fire Protection District
Fire Suppression Units
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Tyler Tobolt photo
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#1 by harry on October 10, 2025 - 4:10 PM
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bill
orlando is fully suphen
nyc has at least 1 suphen engine bck in the day
kenosha is all suphen
#2 by Mike on October 10, 2025 - 3:24 PM
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Bill. Cary has about 20,000 people plus a rail line and some pretty big industrial areas. They are a little invisible but they’re there. 2 firehouses and I believe. 11 guys a day between the 2 houses. Running about 3,000 runs a year. They’ve had good leadership and board of trustees.
#3 by Bill Post on October 10, 2025 - 3:00 PM
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There is one word to describe Cary’s fleet and that’s Classy.
A fire department that is out in the sticks and yet can afford a Sutphen fleet really must have a good source of revenue(money).
I seriously wonder what business’s are in their town to produce the revenue.
Sutphen seems to have a had sterling reputation for a while now and it also seems to have been surviving this fire engine backlog scandal pretty well compared to Pierce, the Rev Group and Rosenbauer which have been appearing before a Senate Subcommittee for Intensive Grilling and question while controlling from 70 to 80 % of the fire apparatus market. While those 3 companies have various corporate owners . Sutphen is still owned by the Sutphen family and yet they have several plants that have recently expanded.
Until about 20 years ago Wheeling Illinois fleet was mainly Sutphen, I wonder what happened? Fpr years Northbrook owned a Sutphen Tower Ladder and Highland Park also had Sutphen Aerial Ladder.
It is interesting that Cicero has recently been purchasing Sutphen products.
One of the largest fire departments in the country which has a majority Sutphen fleet is Orlando Florida which really does stand out when you consider that E/Ones main plant is in Ocala Florida and is a fairly short trip from Orlando.
While not that many large fire departments have used Sutphen it appears that the ones that do seem to be sold on them. Chicago of course never owned one but New York City did own 2 Large Sutphen Tower Ladders around 1980/81 when they were looking into Taller Tower Ladders as that the time the Aerialscope (which had been built on Mack Chassis) only came in 75 foot models.The Sutphens were 100 foot mid mounted models however despite trying Sutphen and American La France/LTI 100 foot rear mounts they stayed with Aerialscopes which started building 95 foot models in 1985.
#4 by Mike on October 6, 2025 - 8:54 AM
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Cary has had Sutphens for decades. They’re on their 2nd tower ladder and 5th or 6th engine.