The service body came from a wrecked firetruck. Great storage and the top makes a nice work bench if needed.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10238936139796825&set=gm.1328332929107817&idorvanity=698432885431161

Fire departments across the U.S. and Canada are waiting years — sometimes four and a half — for new fire trucks, and paying double or triple what those trucks cost five years ago. What is the cause?

just three manufacturers control more than 70% of the market

wait times that once ran about 18 months now stretch up to four and a half years.

https://www.iaff.org/news/what-to-know-about-the-fire-truck-crisis

I went out to El Centro to get a magazine collection for Steve... and dang it, the guy has these in his back yard!

The guy's hobby is fixing up fire trucks and ambulances and selling them! 

1939 GMC /Hunter, it sat in a junkyard for 50 years before getting rescued

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1393436049236203&set=pcb.1425981462226424

Western Electric had it's own fire department

https://chicagoareafire.com/blog/2012/10/western-electric-fire-department-in-cicero-il/

Fire Engine 30, belonging to the San Diego Fire Department's Station 30, was stolen Saturday afternoon and found more than 60 miles away.

The engine was taken at around 4:30 p.m. near 16th Street and Palm Avenue and found just after 5:10 p.m. more than 60 miles away, all the way in Fallbrook.

https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/sdfd-fire-engine-stolen-driven-fallbrook/3917782/

In Australia, South of Gladstone, in Sept 2014 a road train carrying 52 tons of ammonium nitrate crashed near the Angellala creek, set off a massive explosion, destroyed 2 bridges, and registered 2.1 on the Richter scale

https://www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/mining-energy-water/explosives-fireworks/safety-security/significant-incident-reports/angellala-creek

Originally a fire truck purchased at a farm auction in northern Minnesota. Cab paint, interior and tires are original. This has been shortened with a 7ft pickup bed.

https://bids.aumannauctions.com/auctions/43327-jim-macfadden-s-tractors-from-all-over-collection-part-ii

41 Ford model 85 fire truck in the Iron County Museum (thanks Niki!)

cool '38 firetruck that has remained in San Diego, it was a lifeguard station rescue truck.. I can't figure out why the drivers side and passenger side rims have different pinstriping

Ever see a wallplate and electric outlets on a hood before? Me neither

 

FOMOCO fire extinguisher! I've never heard that Ford made these

the North Adams Fired Dept still has their 1944 Mack! Wow! Thanks Tom!

 

The pumper joined the Fire Department in 1941 and served the city for nearly 40 years. 

The vintage fire truck was retained as a source of pride by the department, but at more than 60 years old, the Mack was definitely showing its age. Firefighters, students, volunteers and more than a dozen businesses stepped up to keep the pumper going.

The major body work was done at T&M Auto on Curran Highway, where the truck was parked on Thursday morning.

"We got it in this spring, and put a ton of work in - body work and painting," said T&M owner Michael Milazzo, who estimated at least 500 hours were spent on the truck just this year.   "We've been discussing this project since '04 but it took it this long," Milazzo said, adding later that "we have a great community and there are a lot of people who don't realize how strong the community is."

In addition to work done by McCann students and Milazzo, a host of other businesses gave services, time and materials - from Dean's Quality Auto tuning the engine and rebuilding the exhaust to Sanford & Kid providing interior upholstery.

Meranti said firefighters spent many hours repairing and rebuilding parts of the truck and he and his sons, Mitchell and Matthew, rewired the vehicle.

Mack Manufacturing in Allentown, Pa., delivered the brand-new pumper to Fire Chief John F. Saulnier in November 1941 and put into service after passing a "rigorous three-hour test" at the Briggsville Dam, according to reports at the time by the North Adams Transcript. It was ordered through the former Brewer Bros. dealership at a cost of $10,000. At the time, the Mack company said it was only of only five enclosed-cab firetrucks in the state

They restored it in 2012

https://firenews.org/mass/n/northadams/northadams.html
https://www.iberkshires.com/story/42111/north-adams-restores-1941-fire-engine.html

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a cool high school let the kids work on a fire engine!

 

great Jeep fire engine!

that tach looks very familiar... it took me some time to look up tachs, and get the brand, it's a Sun

from the original Beetlejuice movie

Ford Motor Company Station Wagon Body Ready for Shipment, Kingsford, ca. 1940- 1949

it had it's own fire department naturally, because all that wood needs fire protection!

 https://www.uproc.lib.mi.us/dclpdf/Genealogy/Photographs%20of%20Kingsford,%20Dickinson%20County,%20Michigan%20-%20Ford%20Plant.pdf

the LaFrance is on airbags, and has the exhaust directed out the hydrant on the running board

https://www.tumblr.com/lamorahotwheels/739811132427157504?source=share

Camp Wandawega... you're probably not going to believe this 1960's summer camp time capsule.... was founded in 1925 as a speakeasy/brothel/weekend destination for Chicagoans, and now looks like Martha Stewart and Crate and Barrel were liberally spread throughout the camp

these are legit Girl Scout Cabins, saved from a scout camp that closed nearby

Tucked away on the shore of ‘a little lake that no one has ever heard of’ in southeastern Wisconsin, Camp Wandawega has seen it all: from bootleggers to bad cops, priests to prostitutes, hippies to hipsters, as well as flappers, fanatics, and families on vacation.

Though started at Hotel Wandewega in 1925 to make a speakeasy with trap doors, hidden rooms, etc, by 1961 it was bought by Latvian priests (I am not making that up) who escaped the Soviet Union. They made this their retirement home and Latvian Summer Church Camp

https://www.crateandbarrel.com/kids-blog/camp-wandawega-nod-behind-the-collaboration
https://www.wandawega.com/our-story/
https://www.wandawegahistory.org/index#/the-wandawega-hotel

https://www.wandawega.com/blog/