• EX FDNY Laddder 146
• upgraded lights
• ladder had new wear blocks put in it.
• has a back up camera.
• This ladder was assigned to FDNY Ladder 146 in Brooklyn quartered with Engine 229.
• I have a picture of it at a working fire take from the website fdny.com: http://nyfd.com/brooklyn_ladders/ladder_146.html
• The Mack serial number is: CF611FAP-1405-MT7218.
• The last six letters numbers are a unique FDNY identification number. MT - Mack Tower
• 7218 - Purchased 1972,
• 18th Mack Tower purchased that year.
• It remained in service in New York until the early 1980's.
• (Most FDNY apparatus were kept for a least ten years)
• It was returned to Baker for refurbishment and then sold to the Colonia, NJ Fire Department where it was in service as Tower Ladder 1 (Chemical Hook & Ladder Company). The following information is taken from the Colonia, NJ FD website history page:
• In 1984 the company purchased its first aerial.
• A 1972 Mack Aerialscope purchased from the Baker Company.
• It was a refurbished unit that saw its early years in New York City.
• It was ladder tower 146 of the Green Point section of Brooklyn.
• This was a 75’ tower ladder, and the first one in Woodbridge Township.
• It has gone to all major fires in the area including Woodbridge Township, Plainfield, Elizabeth, and other parts of Middlesex and Union Counties.
• The cost of this truck was one seventy five thousand dollars.
• Shortly after getting truck in service it was called to Plainfield for a fire in a plastics factory, which burned for three days.
• Strong truck and no rust
• everything works was in service at a VFD.
• New tires and lights and sirens all work.
• No ground ladders.
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