News & Press Releases - City of Boston By Fire Department Five New Fire Trucks Ordered for 2010. 12/2/2009 - Released by Fire Department. For more information contact Steve MacDonald. KME of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania and Bulldog Motors of Woodville, Massachusetts were awarded a contract for ... <http://www.cityofboston.gov/news/default.aspx?id=4455> City of Boston - Press Releases <http://www.cityofboston.gov/>
Very interesting - $400,000 for each pumper - $700,000 for each aerial Arlington recently paid $800,000 for a 100 foot quint If Boston was to convert to a fleet of all brand new 100 foot quints instead of a fleet of all brand new pumper and ladders - the cost would be - $40 million versus $28 million - over 15 years, that would be $900,000 per year - approx 9 guys Which would you rather have - 9 guys on the job or all quints? You could do a Saint Louis thing. Have 34 quints in 34 stations. That would cost $30 million versus $28 million. Boston could have twenty 8 man quints and ten 4 man quints. Something to think about. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "massfire" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/massfire?hl=en.
