Fire Apparatus - Pumpers

This is page three for the pumpers. There are over a hundred pumpers of all shapes, sizes, and colors posted on this website. Enjoy your visit and if you would like a print of anything you see here drop me an email.

I finally shot the Memorial Volunteer Fire Company located in Slaughter Beach, Delaware. They excaped me last time in Delaware. This is their beautiful 1979 Hahn.
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The newest piece for the Memorial Volunteer Fire Company is this 1996 Pierce Lance. Pierce is one of the favorite trucks in the state of Delaware.
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The 100th anniversary engine of the Milton Volunteer Fire Company in Milton, DE is this 2001 Quality/Spartan cab pumper. Milton has a couple of other Quality engines to their roster.
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This is a 1998 American LaFrance/3D pumper assigned to the main station in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Sporting the old colors of the Myrtle Beach (SC) fire department, this yellow pumper is a 1985 E-One used as a reserve engine

A little further down the coast is another station where E-631, a 1997 Spartan/3D resides. Sharp looking engine and the second 3D I have found, both in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina.

Just south of Myrtle Beach is another beach community, Murrell's Inlet-Garden City, South Carolina. this is a 1993 Allegheny pumper. With the extra enclosed crew compartment the engine really looks long.

This 1992 E-One is another pumper assigned to Murrell's Inlet-Garden City, South Carolina.

A really nice looking Mack was found at Cherry Grove Beach, South Carolina. Engine 4040 is a 1986 Mack assigned to the beach station at Cherry Grove in North Myrtle Beach.

Just arriving from an auto accident response, North Myrtle Beach Engine 1 is a KME with a Spartan cab.

Located in New Castle country in the northern part of Delaware, the New Castle or Good Will Fire Company has a pumper, heavy rescue and ladder assigned to the station. This is their 1988 Pierce Arrow.
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This image was shot a year to the date of the 9-11 event. This engine was lost during the Twin Towers disaster. This Seagrave is assigned to one of the many stations located in Manhattan. A ladder was just around the corner from this one. Note the "8-Ball" between the driver's door and the rear window. What they need is some flames coming from the 8-ball.

Another Lexington county white engine, this one belonging to Oak Grove, SC. A small community situated between Lexington and West Columbia, SC. This is one of the newest in the county, a 2000 KME. I like the light blue stripes.

Located east of Marion, NC is Old Fort located on the edge of the mountains on the way to Ashville, NC. This is their 1999 KME pumper, the newest piece at their fire department.

Another of the deep blue and white apparatus of the Plymouth Fire Company in Plymouth, PA just outside of Conshohocken, PA. This is a 1987 Hahn.

Another super nice truck belonging to Port Penn Volunteer Fire Company in Delaware. All of their equipment is by Saulsbury as is this 1993 Simon-Duplex/Saulsbury pumper.
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I had a report of a brown engine in Reamstown, PA, but it turned out to be a very dark maroon ladder everyone was referring to. This is their very red and white 1974 Hahn pumper.

Well I've been telling all you guys about the black fire engine(s) in Alabama and here is one that was shot by my friend David Hurt of Vernon, AL. The "Jimmy" is owned by the Red Bay (AL) fire department in Red Bay, AL. It definately different from the traditional paint schemes you see and it must be a pain to keep clean.

Another nice looking piece from the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company's downtown station. Engine 86-5 is a 1988 Grummen. This is the first Grummen I have seen in Delaware. Grummen were pretty common in my part of the country for a while.
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I have seen one or two hard pipe on the side of a pumper, even three, but never 5 like on Engine 86-8, a 1977 Mack CF belonging to the Rehoboth Beach Volunteer Fire Company.
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Riva (MD) Volunteer Fire Company is just down the road from Annapolis, MD and they recently took delivery of Engine 3, a very sharp 2001 4-Guys/Spartan. I love the big city style numbers on the front grill like you see in NYC and Philly. From what I have seen 4-Guys makes a very nice apparatus.

Engine 2 is a 1995 Pierce Saber assigned to the Roebuck, SC fire department located near Spartanburg, SC in the northern part of the state.

Engine 5 is another very nice truck from the Roebuck, SC fire department. It is a 1987 FMC painted in bright orange making it a very unusual color for this state of mostly red fire trucks.

Ronks (PA) Fire Company has some beautiful gold over maroon apparatus like their 1988 Pierce Dash seen here. Ronks is near Lancaster, PA in Amish country. Unfortunately two things happen when I shot this digital image. One, my color print camera bit the dust and secondly my slides that I was shooting in my second camera were messed up by Qualex Labs (Kodak). I don't know if it can be done, but I am now waiting to see if Kodak can make slides from digital images of several slides that were messed up by their slide cutter and mounter.

Located way at the bottom of the state of Delaware and off the beaten path is the community of Roxanna. This is their Pierce pumper. Look at the shine on that engine. Just the reflection could start a fire.
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Here's another Salisbury, Maryland to be exact. Engine 5 is a 1981 American LaFrance housed at the central station downtown.

Just to the northeast of Charlotte, North Carolina is Salisbury, NC. One of their pumpers, a 1996 E-One pumper is housed at the central station. I thought the extra space on the box was for added water capacity, but found out it was for hose storage. Pumper carries less than 1000 gallons of water.

All of the equipment at the Seaford Volunteer Fire Company is Pierce as seen here with one of the older pieces, a 1980 Pierce Duplex.
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One of the newer Pierce engines at Seaford is this 1996 Pierce Lance pumper. Comparing 87-2 above and 87-5 here, things have greatly improved in fire apparatus.
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Seminole county, Florida, located adjacent to Orange (Orlando) county is in the process of renovating their fire stations. Equipment is scattered where ever there is a place to put equipment while the work is going on. The county is also in the process of repainting all of their engines from yellow to international orange. As of October 2003, new equipment will be red and old equipment repainted will be red due to severe fading problems with the international orange paint. This is a 2000 Pierce Quantum assigned to Station 35 in Longwood, FL along highway 17/92, my old stomping grounds.

A little different that Station 35's Pierce is Station 41's Quantum temporarily assigned to the Sanford International airport in Sanford, FL. It shares space with the large crash trucks at the airport while it's station is renovated.

Located in the town of Geneva, just south of Sanford, FL is station 42. Another 2000 Pierce Quantum at their renovated station.

Engine 2812 is a 1999 KME and belongs to SDO fire company in North Carolina. SDO stands for Shilo, Danieltown, and Oakland and the communities are located outside of Forest City, NC.

One of the older engines belonging to SDO in North Carolina. Engine 2153 is a 1989 Ford F-8000.

A very nice shade of deep red on this pumper from Citizen's Hose from Smyrna, Delaware. Apparatus is seen here at the Middletown (DE) station dedication and engine housing parade.
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This South Bowers, Delaware engine caught my eye when I saw it the first time at the state fire convention in Dover, Delaware. This 1994 Sutphen can deliver 2000 gallons of water per minute. Believe me, that's a lot of water flow.
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Located just outside of Lancaster, PA is South Manniheim, PA. Engine 1 is a 1988 Pemfab/E-One in lime yellow and white with green stipes. A very sharp rig and I love the large standoff numbers in the grill.

Located in the northern part of the state, Spartanburg, SC equipment is all white with red and blue stripes. This is a 1999 HME/Smeal stationed at the downtown central station.

This sharp looking 1967 American LaFrance pumper is seen here in Spruce Pine, NC, the city for which it serves with the Spruce Pine fire department.

Sumter, SC is located southwest of Columbia along US-76. Ferrera/HME manufactured this 2000 model.

Just returning for a call, this 1998 E-One belongs to the Talleyville Fire Company. Talleyville is north of Wilmington, Delaware.
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Townsend, Delaware, located in New Castle county perfers Macks and what beautiful Macks they have. This is the oldest Mack, a 1986 model which was one of three, plus their antique Chevy, that were voted best overall company at the Middletown, DE parade and apparatus housing ceremonies recently in Middletown, DE. Check in the tanker section for another of their Macks.
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I passed the Trainer Fire Company station numereous times and never realized they had such a sharp looking piece stashed away there. This is a 1994 Ferrera Inferno in Hawaiian blue. Also assigned to the station is an ambulance and a brush truck painted in the same shade of blue.

This Ferrera pumper is built on a 1996 Freightliner chassie and is the newest piece of fire equipment operated by the WKB (Washington, Kennedy, Brady) Volunteer Fire Company in Avondale, LA. Their motto is "We Fight What Other Fear" and the mascot for this engine is "Taz", the Tazmanian Devil from Warner Brothers. Recently the fire department was reorginized and is now the Herbert Wallace Fire Department.

I have seen a lot of fire trucks in my days, but nothing like a White (brand name) cabover turned into a pumper by Welch. The truck is operated by the Ouachita (pronounced Wash-Ah-Taw) parish fire district located north of Monroe, LA.

West Columbia, SC is located just across the river from downtown Columbia and is protected by the West Columbia fire department. Engine #4 is a 2000 KME assigned to the central station. Really looks sharp with the cover laced over the hose storage area and the extended roofline.

Another KME assigned to the West Columbia (SC) fire department is Engine #5. West Columbia is a separate community from downtown Columbia and has nothing to do with the Columbia fire department.

Another West Columbia (SC) piece, this 1975 Mack is somewhat an oddity. Based on a MB-600 frame, it is the first Mack I have seen like this used as a fire truck. This is the second piece out with the KME's first out. When an alarm sounds in West Columbia, off duty fire personnel report to the station to standby in the event a second call sounds.

This West Grove (PA) pumper and crew drove up to Middletown, DE to standby for Station 27 during their station dedication and equipment housing. It was rumored that a couple of the West Grove volunteer firemen were talking about moving to Middletown after sampling the hospitality and excellant facilities.

This 1987 Seagrave pumper is one of several beautiful pieces of equipment assigned to the West Grove, PA station just over the Delaware stateline and in the heart of mushroom country.

A 1996 KME operated by the only full-time, paid fire department in the state of Delaware, the Wilmington Fire Department.
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Another 1996 KME pumper of the Wilmington (DE) Fire Department seen here downtown during foilage change. The engine also sports one of the 80th anniversary logos applied this year, 2001, the 80th anniversary for the Wilmington Fire Department.
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