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Article says E201 goes to new station as E2, Chief says going to try and get future funding for 2nd engine out of either 1 or 2 house

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Thanks for Station 2 info

Station 2 is suppose to be resurrected downtown on Pacific Hwy near the County Administration center sometime in future......maybe

Ladder Tender is cross staffed by Ladder Company crew, The Company Captain decides which rig to take. One issue that might be a problem with Heartland using a LT type system is cost, typically a LT carries all gear as a regular Ladder Company except the "Big Ladder". Suspect a 2nd complete set of Ladder Company gear might not be cheap.

Ladder Tender type rigs would do good in Heartland/Central Zone because there is a half way decent amount of Truck Companies, that is the reason the concept works in Arizona. Just FYI, LT's over here vary from Light and Medium rescues to rescue pumpers, Phoenix FD LT's might match what HFRD needs

Hi, can someone post details about San Diego FD Water Tender 19, I know about WT40 and WT28, is 19 a third WT or one moved from another house. Thanks

Cool, thanks for all the info

I agree 4 digit is confusing, forgot about 72xx units mostly Calfire Schedule A. Over here Phoenix area it's getting confusing now also as departments grow and run out of 3 digit station numbers and now have agencies with 3 and 4 digit station numbers. Heartland has good system in place. Brush 8 is a beauty by the way.

Back to Brush 8, it's kinda interesting that they didn't assign it a 4 digit county ID (something like 7268) like the way WT7251 at Station 2 is.

Doesn't Mercy provide service in Valley Center and Deer Springs areas?

Station 19(69) is one of the oldest functioning fire stations in San Diego County, it is also actually located within the City of El Cajon, I wonder if is is possible that San Miguel might be able to relocate the station more central into the old Bostonia FPD boundaries (if there is money) or if they might eventually have to close the station.

Lkseng3 do you know is the El Cajon ambulance program a victim of billing problems, as in not getting paid, also suspect your right about the Lakeside/santee/CSA69 medics. Also I agree Crest and Bostonia served better by Cal Fire/SMFPD then having ambulances

Correction on Bostonia 4911, 4982, 4963, 4912 was added in appx 1980.

Just FYI some of the per Heartland Dispatch unit numbers: Lakeside E1 4111, E2 4112, E3 4113, Medic 1 etc, Santee E1 4221, E2 4222, E3 4223, Medic 2, 4261, 4262 etc, El Cajon E1 4321, E2 4322, E3 4323, E4 4324, T1 4370, Grass 1 4360, Medic 3, 4391 and so on. Spring Valley 4611, 4612, 4613 etc. The self or Police dispatched departments: La Mesa 4411, 4412, 4413,4471, 4461, 4481 so on, Lemon Grove had 4510 and 4511, Alpine 4710, 4711, 4790, 4760, Bostonia 4981, 4912, 4963, Crest 4811, 4812, 4891, 4861. The Grossmont-Mt.Helix were CDF and were Helix E1, E2, E3 and Squad 1.

Alpine ran a Ambulance in late 70's till money issue hit and they shut it down, Crest always had a Ambulance of some type till San Miguel took over, Bostonia's ambulance program came into being in mid 90's as the department transactioned from volunteer to combo department, I think Crest did send their Ambulance to Alpine after the Alpine ambulances program was shut down.

The Santee 6x6's were cross staffed by E4221(Santee E1 back then)the ford/crown telesqurt for brush fires, your right one was a brush rig and one a water tender. I Remember listening to radio traffic during a fire out by Santee lakes when the operator on 4262 advised He had no brakes. Back in mid 70's El Cajon Fire dispatched Santee, Ladeside, and Spring Valley and was the zone 4 mutual aid dispatch, Heartland Dispatch came into being in 80's so before that you would hear the unit contact dispatch as the district/city they were in. Example would Santee 4223 responding, El Cajon 4370 at scene etc.. when the initial ddispatch was transmitted, say for a Structure in El Cajon they said El Cajon Fire Traffic, Engine 1, Engine 3, Truck 1, 4390 and 4303 respond Code 3 to......the units responded on air using the 4 digit MA numbers....loved scanner back then

El Cajon Ran American La France till around 1984 when 1st two Pierce Arrows came. At that time if I remember right their were three Century and one series 1000 Front line engines, two or three series 900 reserve engines and the 85' series 900 ladder. Bostonia bought one of the 900's that ran as 4912 for quite a while, was sweet to drive.

When I was a kid they ran the engines and the truck were ALF open cabs, I remember the city's 1st FD ambulance, was a large station wagon style, then came the modified vans,4360 carried the vehicle rescue gear till the city annexed Gillespie Field and they got the twin agent rescue from SD county, the Ford/Pierce rescue replaced both 4381 and 4360 when it came into service

Great picture...ok now time to age some of us.....who remembers El Cajon's last dedicated grass/brush rig 4360 (grass 1) it was a late 50's early 60's GMC mini pumper style rig, it was in service into late 80's

Cool thanks for info

Any word on if the type 3 is at Heartland Station 8 yet?

Any word on if the type 3 is at Heartland Station 8 yet?

One of the Alpine E-one ended up at Campo VFD for awhile.

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