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" - and a new 4th firehouse in Bowie in the Northview area. "
That is another area of contention (?) and deal making within the county. A whole new station is to be built in an area where four stations currently respond, yet at Co.18 when the county owned tower ladder went out of service, the county refused to replace it and so disbanded it. Rather than augment current services for improvement, a whole new station is to be created and staffed. Maybe Co.13's engines, squad and ambulance will go there, but that would be logical. It would not suprise me if the new station was in some small way related to the actions of the citizens in that incorporated area wanting to succeede from the county at one time. Stanger things have happened.
"Is why the hell did they put up the rest of their equipment as collateral. "
Pride. Like I said before, if the station next door has a new special piece of apparatus, then you have to have one too, or you will end up losing territory, or calls, or members. When my station looked at getting a new ladder truck, not only did we have members with good fiscal sense and discipline in general, but we established long term plans and projections, apart from apparatus replacement. When looking at a tiller truck and financing, members also considered whether or not it was better to rehab the current squad or replace it, or, drop the squad altogether and focus on the time when the engines would be scheduled for replacement and consider a rescue engine as an option. We didn't simply sign on to a debt for the sake of having apparatus.
1014, don't forget, RS.2 was still in service too at the time, or for a brief period, before the county reassigned it to 22. That gave you a choice of three rescue squads available to repsond to your first due area, and you (13) already had extrication tools on your engine. It made no sense at all, yet, when you look at it with the mergers, it was most likely a tool of leverage by one or more parties.
That is another area of contention (?) and deal making within the county. A whole new station is to be built in an area where four stations currently respond, yet at Co.18 when the county owned tower ladder went out of service, the county refused to replace it and so disbanded it. Rather than augment current services for improvement, a whole new station is to be created and staffed. Maybe Co.13's engines, squad and ambulance will go there, but that would be logical. It would not suprise me if the new station was in some small way related to the actions of the citizens in that incorporated area wanting to succeede from the county at one time. Stanger things have happened.
"Is why the hell did they put up the rest of their equipment as collateral. "
Pride. Like I said before, if the station next door has a new special piece of apparatus, then you have to have one too, or you will end up losing territory, or calls, or members. When my station looked at getting a new ladder truck, not only did we have members with good fiscal sense and discipline in general, but we established long term plans and projections, apart from apparatus replacement. When looking at a tiller truck and financing, members also considered whether or not it was better to rehab the current squad or replace it, or, drop the squad altogether and focus on the time when the engines would be scheduled for replacement and consider a rescue engine as an option. We didn't simply sign on to a debt for the sake of having apparatus.
1014, don't forget, RS.2 was still in service too at the time, or for a brief period, before the county reassigned it to 22. That gave you a choice of three rescue squads available to repsond to your first due area, and you (13) already had extrication tools on your engine. It made no sense at all, yet, when you look at it with the mergers, it was most likely a tool of leverage by one or more parties.
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