1943 Howard Cooper Fire Truck Tour

Volunteer fire fighter Pete Langley gives Caleb Koch, 4-H Network News, a tour of the 1943 Howard Cooper Fire Truck. The creamy white color makes it very rare because Howard Cooper, out of Portland, OR, produced olive green trucks due to WWII. It was in service from 1943 unitl the 60's and is equipped with a 500 GPM (gallons per minute) pump and a standard 4-speed manual transmission.

The truck was the 3rd moterized rig purchased by the city of Port Townsend for $1,300 or $2,100.


East Jefferson Fire and Rescue
The resource of East Jefferson Fire and Rescue
includes twenty-five paid staff and forty volunteers.
Equiped with sixteen emergency response vehicles
and five support vehicles, the Department responded
to over twenty-five hundred alarms in 2004.

http://www.porttownsendfire.com

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[upsguy03]

That is a nice truck! I love the classic fire trucks. Those were the days that you could tell by just looking what make and model they were. Today, they are just breadboxes, all seem the same. No individuality.

Just curious, whats with the mohawk haircut? Lose a bet? Cant say I have seen one of those in awhile.