Additional Post 8: Station 166 Quint

During the month of April I was fortunate enough to get an in depth tour of the station's quint. A quint is a combination of a fire truck and a fire engine. It has the capability of pumping water, while still having an aerial ladder. The ladder itself is an astonishing 100 feet long. This fire apparatus was practically built to respond to multiple story structural fires. It comes equipped with a number of tools, one being the jaws of life, which is used to extract people who are trapped within cars. It also has a generator, blower, and rotary saw within its several compartments. The image below shows our stations quint parked inside the apparatus floor.