The above picture is of the newest fire truck for the city of Mobile
The city buys a new round of fire engines every four or five years, Mallory told the council. In previous years, she said, the city has been able to buy five or six vehicles at a time, but a tight budget and increases in fire engine prices have meant the city can only afford to buy four this year.
You can see the above statement at the following URL blog.al.com/live/2010/02/mobile_to_use_federal_stimulus.html
According to the article at the above URL the city of Mobile will be able to purchase 4 new fire trucks in 2010 with help from funds from federal stimulus money. As you can see in the paragraph below it has been 8-13 years ago when the city bought two rounds of fire trucks so Mallory’s statement was true but was somewhat misleading to make people think the city gets new fire trucks every 4 or 5 years.
The first statement written in the article at the above URL is a true statement but as you can see below the first round of E-One pumpers was put in service in 1997 and are now going on being 14 years old and many of them need to be replaced and put into reserve. The city did buy or lease a round of E-One fire trucks in 1997 and these are the pumpers 11, 2, 20, 21, 7, and 23.
These fire trucks listed above are 13 years old already and are all first line pumpers located throughout the city serving the citizens of Mobile. The city of Mobile did buy or lease another round of E-One fire trucks in 2002 and that was 8 years ago and these pumpers are 1,6,18,9,16, and 19. The city did buy or lease ladder trucks for truck 4, 17 and 10 but ladder truck 24 and 5 are old trucks still front line and still serving the city of Mobile citizens.
All a person has to do is go visit every fire station in the city of Mobile and they will see some old fire trucks and ladder trucks that are still front line emergency vehicles. At fire station 12 on Old Shell Road is a old Mac fire engine that is over 23 years old and still a front line pumper. At station 14 on Martin Luther King drive is an old E-One over 10 years old.
The newest fire truck is engine 22 located at Tapia fire station on Airport Boulevard. The city did buy or lease Engine 22 from the Ferrara Company two years ago in 2008.
The city of Mobile needs to find some way to cut back on other spending like stop giving council members funds to buy Mardi Gras throws with. Money was spent on making a giant moon pie for New Year’s Day celebration in 2009 that was a flop and then another repeated flop again in 2010 according to comments made below the following paragraph at the URL'S listed.
The below paragraph is part of an article written by the local news concerning money spent on making a giant moon pie.
We were able to reach 2 commissioners by phone. Commissioner Mike Dean says he wants to hear the pitch before deciding on the funds. Commissioner Steve Nodine says he will vote against the moonpie money citing tough economic times. No word on how Commissioner Merceria Ludgood would vote. The two links below will connect you to the news website.
www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/25k_for_the_moonpie_celebration/572648/Dec-14-2009_7-46-pm/
www.wkrg.com/alabama/article/more_more_for_moonpie/557397/Dec-03-2009_7-07-pm/
Read some of the comments at the above URL left by local people who live in the Mobile area and you will see everyone wasn’t that thrilled over the idea.
The city could also cut back by buying smaller vehicles for district chiefs and other city officials to use for personal and work purposes instead of big SUV's. If the city of Mobile and its officials will really look they can find ways to cut back without cutting back on employee health benefits, overtime or other emergency services that help responders do their job better so they can better serve the city citizens of Mobile.
The below link is also about Federal grant money the city of Mobile is supposed to receve from the Government.
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The above picture is a plate that is on the first round of pumpers dated 1997.
The picture above is a plate mounted on one of the last round of fire trucks the city of Mobile has purchased dated November 2002.
The above picture is a front line pumper as a reserve truck X20 serving for engine 29 that must be in the shop for repairs. Engine 29 is also a old pumper at least 20 years old.
The above picture is engine 29 that is a front line pumper and at the shop for repairs. Enging 29 is a old pumper.
The above picture is a ford expedition. This is just one of the new SUV'S the city has just got for the chiefs to repond to fires in.
The above picture is what some of the fire inspectors use to respond to fires with.
The above picture is Ladder Truck 5. Ladder Truck 5 is a old ladder truck and still a front line truck.
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