The Halifax Regional Fire & Emergency Services currently carries six quints on its roster. Ranging in age from 1990 to 2008, they seem to be well spread around the urban core. One lone unit (95-248Q) is based in Lakeside.It dates from 1995 and is not pictured here. It is a Pierce, with a 1250 gpm pump. 500 gal booster tank and 75 ft ladder.
The newest quits are also Pierce:
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1. Quint 7, Pierce 08-435Q is rated 1750/500 with a 75 foot ladder. It is based at Knightsbride in Clayton Park., and is here responding on the Bedford Highway.. |
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2. Quint 12, Pierce 07-417Q is housed at Highland Park in Dartmouth, and is seen at MVI in the Burnside.Industrial Park. It rates at 200/500/75 |
A pair of American LaFrance quints from 2001 are rated at 1750/416 with a 28m (92 feet) LTI ladder.
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3. Quint 13 is an American LaFrance, 01-144Q is based at King Stret in Dartmouth, it is seen here responding to a house fire in a crowded (but high end) Halifax south end neighbourhood. |
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4. Quint 5 has identical specs. It is based at Bayers Road, but was called downtown to the same fire . |
The only survivor of three quints from a pre-amalgamation order is designated as a spare now, but was in service today, working out of West Street. It is now the only Emergency One quint in the force. 1050/500.
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5. Spare quint is an Emergency-One, 90-57Q, one of several ordered by the old Halifax F.D. before amalgamation. |
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6. This unit is rated at 1050 gpm, with a 500 gal booster. It was working out of West Street today. |
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7. I'm not sure if this is the same unit, photographed in 1992 at Bayers Road in the colours of the old HFD. These were the first quints in Halifax fire service. |
the three e ones were purchased in 1990 .one was at bayers rd one out of spryfield one out of knightsridge .the spartan skyarm ran as quint 5 then knightsridge by 94 so don't know where the e one quint ran out of.the quint pictured at bayers rd was sold last year .after amalgamation it went to st 9 in sackville then knights ridge the reserve is the old quint 12 .the hydrolic blew out on 13 and sold i think.
ReplyDelete95-248Q was moved from Station 58 to Station 41 in Waverley last summer to become Quint 41.
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