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The front page of my local newspaper( Akron Beacon Journal) this morning featured a pretty cool picture.It was a picture of a very large firetruck with it’s boom fully extended and our cities’ skyline in the background.What’s so great is that this isn’t your everyday fire truck.
Back On Sept. 16 the Greater Akron Fire Truck Fund was opened to raise money to replace some of the Equipment totalled in NYC on 9-11.In less than a month approx. $1.4 million was raised and as a result a brand new firetruck,2 ambulances and 3 police cruisers were purchased and are now on their way to NYC as a gift from the greater akron area.The cost of the equipment lost in NYC must be staggering since this one firetruck alone carrries a pricetag of nearly $900,000. A FDNY rep mentioned that this is the largest donation of equipment NYC has recieved to date.
At least the Red Cross can’t walk off with this donation.
BTW, back in october I ran in a local road race with my son and we noticed several VERY fit young men racing in FDNY shirts. We also noticed that several people ran the NYC marathon wearing the bib numbers of FDNY members who had registered to run the marathon but were killed 9-11.Wouldn’t it be great if we could raise a generation of young men who think that firemen and policemen are more heroic than NFL ,and NBA players?
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Stephen,
I hear that the anthrax scare has been good for NBA and NFl players in that they are avoiding contact with white powder like substances...........for now.
Thomas
*That's great Stephen. I guess the city of New York lost about 98 emergency vehicles in the collapse.A little town in Wisconsin is raising money to buy a big fire engine for them. It's good to know that a town of less than 10,000 people can do this.MD
*It is cool what your town did, but isn't that what insurance is for? Might as well have given the money to the ins company. Sorry to rain on the parade.
*Mad Dog, I think it is exceptionally cool that a town of 10,000 can do that.Our town is about 200,000 plus which is why the money could be raised so fast and why the fund was closed in less than a month.I imagine it might take a town of 10,000 a while to raise $900,000.Since the local newspaper was the organizing force behind raising the money we have had a lot of articles telling us everything you would ever want to know about fire trucks.Apparently there is only something like 2 companies in the country that make firetrucks and it usually takes over a year to fill an order.I would imagine that NYC goes to the head of the line and everyone else is gonna have to wait to fill their orders.I can't remember the exact figures but I think one of the articles tried to illustrate what a beating NYC fire trucks take ordinarily. the article mentioned that a fire truck might make something like 60 runs a year in the little town where the trucks are made,---but in NYC each one might make something like 3,000 runs a year.I guess the FDNY spends a lot less time washing trucks and eating donuts.
*Rich,I don't really know if any insurance is involved or not.I do remember reading early on that a lot of people might have un-insured losses since it was an act of terrorism.What are the odds anyone thought to insure against 90 some vehicles being totalled at one disaster?Be interesting to know though.
*That's a good point about Ins., even if the Ins. company tried to refuse the claim, any local(or national for that matter)news outfit would jump all over that story and the Ins co would be paying up fast.i Wouldn't it be great if we could raise a generation of young men who think that firemen and policemen are more heroic than NFL ,and NBA players? I sure hope so, and I do think this horrendous event has at least raised the overall public awareness and empathy for the risks these folks wake up to every morning.Mike
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The front page of my local newspaper( Akron Beacon Journal) this morning featured a pretty cool picture.It was a picture of a very large firetruck with it's boom fully extended and our cities' skyline in the background.What's so great is that this isn't your everyday fire truck.
Back On Sept. 16 the Greater Akron Fire Truck Fund was opened to raise money to replace some of the Equipment totalled in NYC on 9-11.In less than a month approx. $1.4 million was raised and as a result a brand new firetruck,2 ambulances and 3 police cruisers were purchased and are now on their way to NYC as a gift from the greater akron area.The cost of the equipment lost in NYC must be staggering since this one firetruck alone carrries a pricetag of nearly $900,000. A FDNY rep mentioned that this is the largest donation of equipment NYC has recieved to date.
At least the Red Cross can't walk off with this donation.
BTW, back in october I ran in a local road race with my son and we noticed several VERY fit young men racing in FDNY shirts. We also noticed that several people ran the NYC marathon wearing the bib numbers of FDNY members who had registered to run the marathon but were killed 9-11.Wouldn't it be great if we could raise a generation of young men who think that firemen and policemen are more heroic than NFL ,and NBA players?