The Cary Fire Department yesterday received their new Engine 9, a 2017 Pierce Enforcer 1500/500. It was delivered to Atlantic Emergency Solutions in Fayetteville on March 30, and arrived at Station 1 on Tuesday.
Lee Wilson paid a visit and snapped this picture. See his photo album.
Lee Wilson photo
It replaces a 2003 Pierce Dash, 1250/500, fleet #1957. And Station 9, as you recall, is housed at old Station 2 at 875 SE Maynard Road. It’s a temporary location until their permanent quarters are erected farther south at 1427 Walnut Street.
This is the town’s second Pierce Enforcer pumper, following the similarly spec’ed Engine 5, a 2017 model delivered last year.
Cary + Pierce – Since 1982
Photo credits: Lee Wilson, Mike Legeros, Town of Cary
By my count, this is town’s twenty-ninth piece of Pierce fire apparatus since 1982. (Readers, please check my work!)
- 1 – Ford C chassis/Pierce body
- 3 – Arrow
- 7 – Dash
- 2 – Enforcer
- 5 – Lance
- 11 – Velocity
With this spread of apparatus types:
- 17 pumpers
- 6 aerial platforms
- 4 rescue trucks, heavy
- 1 service truck
- 1 aerial ladder.
And with a couple exceptions and notes:
- The single service truck, a 1993 Pierce Lance, is really a rescue body, used as a service truck. Heavy rescue, walk-around.
- The 1999 Pierce Lance aerial platform received a new aerial device in 2002, after the SkyArm aerial collapsed at a structure fire on June 4, 2002.
- The fire department also operated a 2001 Pierce Dash
(model?)aerial platform during 2002, loaned by Pierce, but never titled to the town.
Mr. Blogger has lately updated and refreshed his unofficial Cary FD web site, including an expanded historical timeline and the addition of a detailed fleet listing (PDF). Tool over and take a look.