{"id":2030,"date":"2017-04-05T07:48:18","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T11:48:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2017-04-05T08:07:13","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T12:07:13","slug":"cary-receives-new-pierce-pumper-and-some-trivia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/cary-receives-new-pierce-pumper-and-some-trivia\/","title":{"rendered":"Cary Receives New Pierce Pumper&#8230; And Some Trivia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Wilson paid a visit and snapped this picture. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/leewilson\/albums\/72157678962588143\">See his photo album<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2031\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-04-05-cfd.jpg\" alt=\"2017-04-05-cfd\" width=\"600\" height=\"283\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-04-05-cfd.jpg 600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-04-05-cfd-300x142.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/>Lee Wilson photo<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s a temporary location until their permanent quarters are erected farther south at 1427 Walnut Street.<\/p>\n<p>This is the town&#8217;s second Pierce Enforcer pumper, following the similarly spec&#8217;ed Engine 5, a 2017 model delivered last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Cary + Pierce &#8211; Since 1982<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2036\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-04-05-cfd2.jpg\" alt=\"2017-04-05-cfd2\" width=\"600\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-04-05-cfd2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-04-05-cfd2-300x196.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>Photo credits: Lee Wilson, Mike Legeros, Town of Cary<\/p>\n<p>By my count, this is town&#8217;s twenty-ninth piece of Pierce fire apparatus since 1982. (Readers, please check my work!)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1 &#8211; Ford C chassis\/Pierce body<\/li>\n<li>3 &#8211; Arrow\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>7 &#8211; Dash<\/li>\n<li>2 &#8211; Enforcer<\/li>\n<li>5 &#8211; Lance<\/li>\n<li>11 &#8211; Velocity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>With this spread of apparatus types:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>17 pumpers<\/li>\n<li>6 aerial platforms<\/li>\n<li>4 rescue trucks, heavy<\/li>\n<li>1 service truck<\/li>\n<li>1 aerial ladder.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And with a couple exceptions and notes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The single service truck, a 1993 Pierce Lance, is really a rescue body, used as a service truck. Heavy rescue, walk-around.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>The fire department also operated a 2001 Pierce Dash <del>(model?)<\/del> aerial platform during 2002, loaned by Pierce, but never titled to the town.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mr. Blogger has lately updated and refreshed his unofficial <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/ralwake\/cary\/\">Cary FD web site<\/a>, including an expanded <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/ralwake\/cary\/timeline.shtml\">historical timeline <\/a>and the addition of a detailed <a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/ralwake\/galleryc\/docs\/cfd-fleet-history.pdf\">fleet listing<\/a> (PDF). \u00a0Tool over and take a look.<\/p>\n<div data-animation=\"no-animation\" data-icons-animation=\"no-animation\" data-overlay=\"on\" data-change-size=\"\" data-button-size=\"0.7\" style=\"font-size:0.7em!important;display:none;\" class=\"supsystic-social-sharing supsystic-social-sharing-package-flat supsystic-social-sharing-content supsystic-social-sharing-content-align-left\" data-text=\"\"><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fcary-receives-new-pierce-pumper-and-some-trivia%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"2030\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Cary Receives New Pierce Pumper... 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