| Title: | Maynard -- Center of the Universe |
| Notice: | Welcome to our new digs... |
| Moderator: | PRAGMA::GRIFFIN |
| Created: | Wed Aug 06 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 20 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 509 |
| Total number of notes: | 4062 |
For the longest time, the Town of Maynard finally has a normal
color fire truck!!
Yesterday, the Town of Maynard received their new 1991 Emergency-One
fire truck from Greenwood Apparatus Company of Middleboro, MA. This
replaces Engine 2 a 1972 Peter Pirsch fire truck that was used as a
rescue/pumper.
I won't bore you with all the bells and whistles, but it looks
great to see a red fire truck in the station.
The new truck will hopefully be in service by the end of the week or
the begining of next week.
Ken Priest
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| 351.1 | A nice looking truck! | SENIOR::IGNACHUCK | Native Maynardian | Thu Feb 06 1992 23:17 | 13 |
As Ken mentioned, the new truck was made by Emergency One and the
apparatus was added by Greenwood in Middleboro.
It is my understanding that Emergency One was so impressed by the
work done by Greenwood, and the color and lettering design by the
Maynard Fire Department, that they are planning on using a picture
of the new truck in their 1993 promotional calendar.
Aside: MCI Concord offers a refurb/repaint program for local fire
departments and the plans are to cycle some of other fire trucks
through to eventually get them all the normal color.
Frank
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| 351.2 | Federal FIddling | CIMNET::PIERSON | I am the NRA | Fri Feb 07 1992 19:37 | 8 |
fwiw department:
The yellow was a federal reccomendation/requirement. Somebody ran some
tests and found it had higher visibility. Took a lot of flack for
that, people LIKE red firetrucks....
regards
dwp
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| 351.3 | RAMBLR::MORONEY | Is the electric chair UL approved? | Fri Feb 07 1992 21:07 | 3 | |
Thanks, I was going to ask why red, then yellow, then back to red? -Mike | |||||
| 351.4 | invisible trucks | SPIDR::HORRIGAN | Thu Feb 20 1992 18:27 | 7 | |
i think there were some problems with the yellow trucks becoming
invisible under certain lighting conditions, such as yellow sulfer
lights.
edh.
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