AFD NEw Truck 1 - First Working Fire

Nearly a month after the Allentown Fire Department received its new Truck 1 it runs its first working fire. The KME Arielcat was put into service on July 4th replace the old truck 1 which has been out of service for about 6 months. Finally in the early morning hours of July 27, 2008 the crew got to put it through its paces at a two alarm fire on North Jefferson St.

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• Allentown
• Lehigh
• County
• working
• house
• fire
• building
• apartment
• structure
• AFD
• engine
• truck
• one

[nayr1010]

im not sure but we do that too but no that high our truck is lifted to fott and lowered to a half inch or less of the ground im not sure whats there sop on putting it up is

[firtog]

it is an auto stabilizing feature on the truck so it lifts it all the way up and then brings it down to a safe level position.

[mrstevebournias]

why has this unit run out of 3 different stations at various points in time?

[fire3fighter343]

looks like a kme/LTI ariel

[PauletteVFD671]

what is this truck ....like what make/model



[mathiastheok]

1:50..... that's enough room to swap out the tranny..lol

[backspacecows01]

nice i guess, but i'll stick with my LTI

[mistergjs]

Hey I just got done installing new siding on that house just yesterday.

[nayr1010]

so weaver hooked that truck up we didnt even get that on ours we got auto tabe align tho

[Cessna154]

What is the purpose of lifting up the truck around 2 minutes into the video?