{"id":3079,"date":"2018-02-27T07:22:58","date_gmt":"2018-02-27T12:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/?p=3079"},"modified":"2018-02-27T07:22:58","modified_gmt":"2018-02-27T12:22:58","slug":"vintage-photo-of-guilford-county-airport-fire-spill-support-unit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/vintage-photo-of-guilford-county-airport-fire-spill-support-unit\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Photo of Guilford County Airport Fire Spill Support Unit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a reader, who came upon this vintage picture the other week, from the collection of Scott Mattson.\u00a0 Thanks for sharing, Micah!<\/p>\n<p>Vintage Guilford County Fire Services support unit. Looks like a 1960s Dodge truck, which had been converted into a lighting and generator unit. It&#8217;s pulling a\u00a0two-axle cargo trailer lettered as &#8220;oil spill control unit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-02-27-guilford.jpg\"> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-3081\" src=\"http:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-02-27-guilforda.jpg\" alt=\"2017-02-27-guilforda\" width=\"500\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-02-27-guilforda.jpg 500w, https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017-02-27-guilforda-300x146.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><br \/><\/a>Scott Mattson Collection<\/p>\n<p>Both were housed at the airport fire station, which was also headquarters for county fire services. The county&#8217;s oil spill response team was created around 1977 or 78, and included this 1958 Chevy tanker.\u00a0Click to enlarge:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/photos\/weblog\/images\/2015-08-09-airport.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/ralwake\/photos\/weblog\/images\/2015-08-09-airporta.jpg\" width=\"500\" border=\"1\" \/><br \/> <\/a>Scott Mattson Collection<\/p>\n<p>In a Greensboro Daily News article on February 13, 1978, the &#8220;special county oil spill team&#8221; was described as being created sixteen months prior.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Technical expertise was provided by the Division of Environmental Health, while the &#8220;sweat and backbreaking labor of containing an oil spill&#8221; is provided by the County Fire Marshal&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p>The fire marshal&#8217;s office had created a fleet of emergency vehicles for oil spill response, including a lighting truck with a gas-powered generator, a trailer with absorbing materials and tools for spill containment, a pumper truck that can &#8220;suck up offending oil or contaminated water&#8221;, a general maintenance truck that pulls the trailer, and a jeep.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Mr. Blogger&#8217;s recent history of Guilford County Fire Services and history of the PTI airport fire department:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.legeros.com\/history\/stories\/pti-airport\">www.legeros.com\/history\/stories\/pti-airport<\/a>.<\/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%2Fvintage-photo-of-guilford-county-airport-fire-spill-support-unit%2F\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u={url}\" data-nid=\"1\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3079\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage Photo of Guilford County Airport Fire Spill Support Unit\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-facebook\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Twitter\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-photo-of-guilford-county-airport-fire-spill-support-unit%2F&text=Vintage+Photo+of+Guilford+County+Airport+Fire+Spill+Support+Unit\" data-main-href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url={url}&text={title}\" data-nid=\"2\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3079\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage Photo of Guilford County Airport Fire Spill Support Unit\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-twitter\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><a data-networks=\"[]\" class=\"social-sharing-button sharer-flat sharer-flat-8 counter-standard without-counter pinterest\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Pinterest\" href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flegeros.com%2Fblog%2Fvintage-photo-of-guilford-county-airport-fire-spill-support-unit%2F&description=Vintage+Photo+of+Guilford+County+Airport+Fire+Spill+Support+Unit\" data-main-href=\"http:\/\/pinterest.com\/pin\/create\/link\/?url={url}&description={title}\" data-nid=\"7\" data-name=\"\" data-pid=\"1\" data-post-id=\"3079\" data-url=\"https:\/\/legeros.com\/blog\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php\" data-description=\"Vintage Photo of Guilford County Airport Fire Spill Support Unit\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-mailto=\"\"><i class=\"fa-ssbs fa-ssbs-fw fa-ssbs-pinterest\"><span>Share<\/span><\/i><div class=\"counter-wrap standard\"><span class=\"counter\">0<\/span><\/div><\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to a reader, who came upon this vintage picture the other week, from the collection of Scott Mattson.\u00a0 Thanks for sharing, Micah! 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