This is a blog version of a Facebook posting from September 28, 2023.

Shown are Hickory, Wilmington, Concord, Sanford, Morganton, Hendersonville, Henderson, and Morehead City.

Here’s a master list of quadruple combinations or quads that have served in North Carolina. 

Concord
1949 Mack 75, 750/250 – Reg #75-2-2349

Henderson 
1940 American LaFrance 575 CDO, ___/___ – Reg #L1215

Hendersonville 
1948 American LaFrance 700 Series quad, 750/[150?], model 775-QJO, reg#L-3451, shipped April 27, 1948

Lenoir
1934 American LaFrance Type 307, 750/___ – Reg #7513. Delivered July 1934.

Morehead City 
1928? American LaFrance, 1000/90 – Water tank possibly converted from chemical tank.

Morganton
1942 American LaFrance B-675-CDO quad, 750/150 – #L1880.

Sanford 
1939 American LaFrance 575 RDO, 750/100 – Reg #L-1090

Wilmington
1938 Seagrave, 750/___ – Reg #93140. Previously cited as 500 GPM. 

Not Quads But Service Trucks with Booster Systems

Charlotte
1949 American LaFrance 700, ___/___ – Reg #L3809
Truck 5 at Station 8, later Ladder 8 

Greensboro
1948 American LaFrance ALF 700-BSJO, ___/___ – Reg #L3712   

New Bern
1927 Seagrave  had pump, no water tank.

Definition

Four things define a quad:

• full set of ground ladders (208′ or greater)
• booster tank* (100 gallons or greater)
• full hose load (1,200′ of 2.5″)
• rated pump of 500 GPM or greater.

*On older rigs, a chemical system qualified as a booster tank into the early 1930s.