Is this new rescue model outfitted with a pump also?
I don't know about Staten Island but in the Bronx the only quad in service in the 1950s was at Engine Company 96. It had previously operated as a combination engine company with a pumper, hose wagon, and a city service ladder truck. These trucks carried only ground ladders, raised by the members with long poles. The longest ladder was usually 50 ft and they were employed in the outlying areas of all the boroughs. I believe L39 had a city service truck until after World War II when it was replaced by a tractor trailer ariel. The last of them went out of service when the FDNY purchased the quads and combined the three pieces of apparatus into just one. In the Bronx it continued to carry the designation as Engine Company 96 (with an enhanced crew). An Officer was required to be present for each tour of duty. My father was an experienced truckie from Harlem and spent a lot of time detailed as the officer to E96. The quad left engine 96 after just a few years service when the high rise buildings went up in Clausen Point/Soundview.
Were the designation of the Staten Island quads as ladder companies because that's what they had been historically?
I don't know about Staten Island but in the Bronx the only quad in service in the 1950s was at Engine Company 96. It had previously operated as a combination engine company with a pumper, hose wagon, and a city service ladder truck. These trucks carried only ground ladders, raised by the members with long poles. The longest ladder was usually 50 ft and they were employed in the outlying areas of all the boroughs. I believe L39 had a city service truck until after World War II when it was replaced by a tractor trailer ariel. The last of them went out of service when the FDNY purchased the quads and combined the three pieces of apparatus into just one. In the Bronx it continued to carry the designation as Engine Company 96 (with an enhanced crew). An Officer was required to be present for each tour of duty. My father was an experienced truckie from Harlem and spent a lot of time detailed as the officer to E96. The quad left engine 96 after just a few years service when the high rise buildings went up in Clausen Point/Soundview.
Were the designation of the Staten Island quads as ladder companies because that's what they had been historically?