By the time this unit was placed in to service there were rather few turntable ladders being delivered with built in pumps like this example, and quite a few British fire brigades (as well as other countries’) had also ceased ordering their ladders with a crew cab. In the US aerial ladders with crew cabs and pumps are very common, especially in smaller fire departments, but these are usually intended to be able to perform equally as a pumper as well as a ladder truck, which is a different conceptual approach.
Quite often a “quint” (pump, aerial, water tank, hose bed and ground ladders) is the first due unit at suburban structure fires, and will often initiate the interior attack and then perform roof and or other ventilation or overhaul duties at a later stage.
In the US aerial ladders with crew cabs and pumps are very common, especially in smaller fire departments, but these are usually intended to be able to perform equally as a pumper as well as a ladder truck, which is a different conceptual approach.
Quite often a “quint” (pump, aerial, water tank, hose bed and ground ladders) is the first due unit at suburban structure fires, and will often initiate the interior attack and then perform roof and or other ventilation or overhaul duties at a later stage.
Added by Rob Johnson on 07 March 2023.