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Engines 2, 10, 22, 37, and 44 now on the Pierce Flickr page.

CHP Academy. 3500 Reed Ave, West Sacramento. If you do a Google satellite view for that address you can see hundreds of patrol cars on the east side of the property.

I know Pasadena FD uses TDAs. I was asking for a photo of a Houston FD TDA in response to another posters comment that Houston FD has "always used TDAs".

I would love to see a photo of a Houston TDA. I'm not aware of Houston having owned a TDA in at least 30+ years. All rear mount aerials and platforms..

USAR41 was out of service.

All the Salisbury engines will be replaced by the of the year.

Engine 141? The North Zone must be changing unit numbering to a 3-digit system.

Thanks Old Foam 10 (KME) was sent to auction awhile back.

Funny title. Lifeguards are part of San Diego Fire-Rescue. The headline should read that they are at odds with their Chief.

Or looking at PulsePoint on the internet.

San Miguel is scheduled to go back to a stand-alone District in July or so. They opted to leave the numbers as is until that occurs. It would be a waste of money to change the identifiers on the vehicles just to change them again in a few months.

Calfire renumbered all the Schedule A and contract agency equipment. Station numbers mostly stayed the same but they now use numbers matching the station. 7316 became Engine 36, 7810 is now Engine 80, etc. Second unit of same type out of the station is 200 series, 3rd is 300 series, etc. Battalion 7808 is now just Battalion 8. This mirrors the same system Calfire-Riverside County utilizes, and that is no coincidence. The San Diego Unit Chief and at least one of the two ECC Battalion Chiefs all came from Riverside.

If you read the comments on LVFR Facebook the department states that Pierce did not bid on this batch of engines.

Here is a link to many pictures of new apparatus being displayed at Firehouse World in San Diego this week. Many interesting pieces of equipment are featured. https://www.flickr.com/photos/southerncalifornian/

The current front-line truck, which will become the reserve truck, is a 2006. The option with KME is to purchase an additional truck within the next fire years. At the end of that 5 year period the 2006 will be 16 years old. Within replacement range, though on the lower end. If the money is there why not? So my point is this may not involve an additional staffed truck company at all.

4 Stations. Station 1, 2, 3 and 5. No station 4.

OCFA Fire Station 61 burned down this morning. http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/OCFA-Buena-Park-fire-station-61-410496605.html

Should be a third one going to T45.

Not surprised the rig is similar to the San Diego Fire specs. Two out of the four Coronado Chief Officers retired from San Diego Fire.

AMR is desperately trying to avoid a second quarter in a row of non-compliance. Failure to do so could mean a declaration by the City of "breach of contract", which would set up the possibility of a City takeover. Stay tuned.

Not sure if the OES rig has been delivered yet. It is coming.

The HM1 you saw previously will be bumped down to HM2. Identical rigs.

46 no longer has a truck.

Truck 45's 2011 KME 75' will still be in front-line service, though possibly not at Station 45.

You are correct.