Huletts Landing Fire Company volunteers learn how to operate their new fire truck.
Recently, the Horicon Fire Department dropped off the used fire truck that the Huletts Volunteer Fire Company recently purchased from them.
The “new” Huletts truck is a mid-1980’s combined pumper and tanker truck.
Here is a picture of some Huletts volunteer firemen learning how to operate the truck this evening.
(Click on the picture to see full-scale.)
Correction:
I have been advised that a “fire engine” connotes a pumper, which puts out fires.
A “fire truck” connotes a ladder truck, i.e., a “hook & ladder”, now replaced by one-piece aerial ladder trucks, which specialize in rescue.
That’s why a big city fire station will say “home of engine 17 and truck 84,” or something similar, because the station houses the 17th engine company and the 84th ladder company.
More and last but not least technically, real firemen call their engine an “apparatus.”
Thanks to our strong readership, I stand corrected!