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beautiful appliance, will east sussex stay with volvo or will they make the switch to either man or scania appliances as well and also will they start using battenburg like most of the other counties?

Added by Mark Charnley on 30 January 2008.

hi mark this appliance is a WTL at the moment for training in east sussex on the 1:7 foam but east sussex are in talks to keep and get more of these appliances to use as there WTL i will find more info on this next week.

Added by Harvey Dan on 30 January 2008.

Along with the tragic deaths of two *firefighters, East Sussex F&RS lost a dozen frontline fire appliances in the huge explosion and blaze at the Festival Fireworks factory near Ringmer in December 2006.

The appliances written-off included 8 ERPs, 1 WrT, 1 ALP, 1 WrC and 1 ICU. Several brigades have loaned spare appliances to cover the resultant shortfall until ESF&RS take delivery of brand-new replacements.

The brand-new appliances will be on the new Volvo FLL15-280 chassis with bodywork by JDC, and should all be delivered by January 2008.

And they have stripes! No batternburgs in sight!

*Footnote: RIP Brian Wembridge and Geoff Whicker. Bless you for your sacrifice.

Added by Yelp Bullhorn on 30 January 2008.

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the new pumps wont be on run just yet as there are a few problems with them. but yes your right east sussex did lose alot of appliances. but hay they can be replaced but 2 great fireman cant yes rip brian mate and geoff harvey

Added by Harvey Dan on 30 January 2008.

This appliance had had a bit of a push and pull life, originally built to be the second away from Brighton it was found to be over weight when loaded and never went on the run as a front line fire fighting appliance. It was then placed on trial with Humberside for around a year before returning to East Sussex were it was placed in storage with an uncertain future. Several months ago it was saved from the scrap pile as it was decided that it would be placed on the run as the foam tender at Newhaven fire station replacing the Volvo flat bed truck. It was placed on the run as the foam tender at the end in June 2013

Added by John on 30 July 2013.

It nearly went on the run at Rye some 2 years ago had the name on the door.If a few tweeks had been performed to the stowage it could have been a very good water tender.

Added by Shaun R. on 01 August 2013.

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