Harve, I don't know if that's a testament to how far your department has come, or how old you are :)Quote:
Originally Posted by hwoods
Seriously, that's a cool old station and some classic equipment...what a great picture!
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Harve, I don't know if that's a testament to how far your department has come, or how old you are :)Quote:
Originally Posted by hwoods
Seriously, that's a cool old station and some classic equipment...what a great picture!
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Originally Posted by ffmedcbk1
Yeah, I'm a shiftworker, that was posted on the night shift....:)
very cool! congrats on the new station and good luck with getting it up to steam. what kind of coverage area will you have? any idea on what kind of equipment you'll have?
Well, this is not an expansion station, it's actually our new main station...the apparatus currently housed at Station 1 will be moved to this station (only a couple hundred yards away) and the old station will be decommissioned. Our '96 Ferrara engine, '00 LaFrance engine, and '05 rescue/service truck will operate from this station.Quote:
Originally Posted by RollerDJ
well, this should make it a little easyer to get going in the new station. if you had to start everything new from scratch it would deffently add to the stress level.Quote:
Originally Posted by dmleblanc
Yeah, you definitely got that right! Although we will probably be speccing out a new engine this year that will housed at this station, but we won't move forward on that until we get the station project over and done. We still have a 1970 Darley engine in service at one of our substations that needs to be retired.Quote:
Originally Posted by RollerDJ
got any pic's? :DQuote:
Originally Posted by dmleblanc
i'd say, 40 years is quite a while for a engine to be in service.
Well, our station project is (finally) officially underway! A groundbreaking ceremony was held on Friday, May 13th (you know we would have to kick off the project on Friday the 13th :eek:). Various local and State officials were in attendance including Louisiana State Fire Marshal Butch Browning, Louisiana State Firemen's Association president Ken Pitre, and state representative Karen St. Germain.
As of this Friday (May 20th) we're still waiting to see some work you could actually call construction. The surveyers were out early this week shooting grades and marking the property lines...there's some stakes in the ground and the guys doing the dirt work came out and looked over the jobsite, but that's about as far as we got this week. Hope to see some actual equipment arriving on site this week...
Sorry about the picture quality, I got them off of Facebook :)
Congrats! Sounds like you guys needed an upgrade!
Sorry to take this off topic but I enjoyed the old firehouse pic and I know there's quite a few of us that like the nostalgia. Here's a shot of the house I'm sitting in as I type this. Hope it stays in service another few years....
http://www.willard.lib.mi.us/histori...s/h14_2405.jpg
This station is also still in service on our city's north side. The other of 2 100+ year old stations we have.
http://www.willard.lib.mi.us/histori...s/h14_2407.jpg
That's a cool old station, doesn't even look like a firehouse. Reminds me of one in Baton Rouge that I worked out of one night when I was doing my EMT ride time...Engine in the front, ambulance in the rear, looked like a private residence.Quote:
Originally Posted by LockedWings
Trying to get pic to work...it's at 1801 Laurel St., Station 1...Built in 1926...
So it's the firehouse equivalent of a mullet?Quote:
Originally Posted by dmleblanc
That's funny right there....:DQuote:
Originally Posted by voyager9
That is GREAT!Quote:
Originally Posted by voyager9
Hey thats a great looking house but it looks like there is a problem with the truck inside....is that like a nose or something??:DQuote:
Originally Posted by dmleblanc
Glad to hear things are moving along......... :)
Good luck on the building of your new station! I'd love to get our company to where we could build one. We have troubles everywhere with our current station! (Bay not big enough, Driveway is cracked like crazy, No drainage) Just improper building!
Keep us updated!
I'm happy for you..Congratulations! buddy.. At last, the long wait is finally over.. That's great..