FireGuy

Did they give up their 201 Rights?

Incorrect. The LAFD has an assignment for "Major Aviation Incident" with far more than this allocation and no ARFF stays available, even on a standby incident.

Re-open? 270 after drill tower attrition barely keeps up with the number of firefighters retiring in the next 12 months.

The argument provided is that this six ARFF vehicle configuration would provide the ability to handle two simultaneous aircraft incidents. As far as the biggest, it's more about providing the required firefighting foam capacity to mitigate an incident for the type of aircraft currently utilizing LAX. Whether it is on four rigs or six, it's about the capacity of the total response force. There are crew size configuration considerations in the context of this decision, but not going to go there.

At least two 1993 Simon LTIs have been salvaged. One of them a couple years ago that was stripped of everything for parts.

No problem.

That would be welcome news if it was even remotely accurate. No funding has been approved beyond the seven trucks on order right now, so unless Pierce is donating fire apparatus, it's purely speculative as to the quantity of fire apparatus that will be approved in future years. Moreover, given that there are 55 trucks in the LAFD fleet (42 active/13 reserve), 70 trucks in 10 years means the LAFD would retire 17 of these Pierce trucks within that time span, and it also assumes the age of every truck in the fleet would be less than 10 years. There is no question you have good friends at Pierce, there are many fire apparatus currently exceeding the replacement cycle, and that there is much excitement over this contract award, but putting out unchecked info like this will only fuel rumors.

Same location, different day:

That's too bad - that Motorola siren tone has been the signature wail/yelp calling for the LAFD since they switched over to the 800mhz radio system in 1990. Now there's really no way the distinguish LAFD from anyone else at a distance. RA51 along with the new KME engines have the Motorola H1615 siren control head attached to the radio; did Motorola come out with a new siren driver?

It was probably just an oversight before the vehicle was delivered from the LAFD Shops. The Body Shop normally applies the "Paramedic" lettering. The number is what is a solid indication of ALS or BLS. Station number = ALS ambulance 200 series = Second ALS or Ready Reserve ALS 600-700 series = Ready Reserve BLS 800-900 series = BLS ambulance

They were in a 1996 Seagrave until recently, but now back in a 1999 Pierce at last check, shop # 60558.

All 93 ALS Rescues will be covered after full delivery in this latest order, in addition to a number of 800 series.

They have a new Dodge numbered and coming soon.

E295 is assigned a 1999 Pierce Dash. The 2005 Arrow XT was bumped down to E106.

E248 is now in a 2003 Seagrave (at the Shops). I'd have to look that shop number as well.