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Engine 2-1                                       Engine Tanker 2

Special Unit 2                                             Brush 2

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From Hand and Horses to Today.....

July 4,1896 - This is the only known photograph of the hand drawn fire equipment of the Always There Hook and Ladder Fire Company. This photo was taken in the fire hall, now the borough hall on East Main Street. Note that the flag only has 45 stars on it.

Photo courtesy of Mrs. W.F. Ruppert.

In 1964 the Mechanic Hose Company donated two of their hand drawn hose reel to the

 National Park Service in Harper Ferry West Virginia.

Cica 1900

     Hose Wagon ( kid and Prince)

     65 foot Seagrave Aerial Ladder ( Scott and Mack)

     Nott 800 GPM Steam Pumper ( Chief, Jack and Dan)

     Please note that the names of the men were not recorded, But the horses were!

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The Officers and membership of the Mechanics on the square

in front of the White Swan Hotel

 1907 Seagrave  horse drawn ladder

Chief Funk and the teams at the ready!

The Mechanics Silsby Steamer was sold for scrap because the boiler and fire box cracked

Waynesboro's Motorized Apparatus

#1 - 1916 American LaFrance

#2 - 1917 Seagrave - Chemical truck

#3 - 1917 Brockway tractor pulling the Nott Steamer

#4 - 1926 American LaFrance - 600gpm - dark green

#5 - 1926 American LaFrance - City Service Truck

#6 - 1929 American LaFrance - First Community Pumper

#7 - 1941 Mack - 500 gpm

#8 - 1948 Mack - 750 gpm

This Harley Davidson motorcycle with a side car was use in the

late 1940s and 1950s as the Fire Chief vehicle.

#9 - 1950 Mack - 750 gpm Second Community Pumper

#10 - 1955 Mack 65 foot / 750 gpm (Truck 2)

The 1955 Mack ladder truck was sold to Woodsboro MD and is now owned by The Fire Chief of Hagerstown MD, Kyd Dieterich. This ladder truck was special requested to the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, due to it's low clearance to reach the inner rings.

#11 - 1958 Mack  - 750 gpm Started red and was painted slime-yellow. This was the third and last "Community Pumper". Now owned by a collector.

#12 - 1964 Mack - 1000 gpm

This Engine was on a Trading Card - Top Photo

Note the windshield wipers on inside and a heater. 

Sold to a museum in Parkville MO in May of 1998

#13 - 1961 International Rescue  (Unit 2-5)

#14 -1971  Ford / Bruco - 250 gpm - 1500 gal (Tanker 2-12)

# 15 - 1976  CF Mack 1000 gpm and 750 gal. tank. Engine 2-1 was yellow before it was repainted White  over red. This engine was solded to a collector in Reading PA.

#16 - 1976 Chevrolet / Swab

Sold to North Union Volunteer Fire Department

Lemont Furnace, PA Fayette County

#17 - 1982 Mack / Baker Aerialscope, 75 foot. Sold to New Market ,VA

#18 - 1979 Dodge / Pierce Mini-Pumper 350 gpm with 200 gal. tank.

This unit later was converted into WFD first wildland brush truck.

#19 -1972 CF Mack, BEFORE -FDNY Engine 245 - AFTER WFD Engine 2-2. Sold to South Mountain Volunteer Fire Company. 1000 gpm and 1000 gal tank.

#20 - 1991 Peterbuilt / Swab Rescue Squad

#21 - 1996 KME Renegade - 1250 gpm 1500 gal tank.

Engine - Tanker 2  at the beach - Ocean City MD

#22 - 1997 KME Excel - 1250 gpm with 1000 gal tank

#23 - 1980 Ford F-150 - Utility 2 was totaled in vehicle crash.

#24 - 2001 Ford  / Swab - 350 gpm with 200 gal. tank

#25 - 1979 Dodge Brush truck  

300 gpm with 300 gal. tank and 5 gal. class A- foam

#26 - 1973 Hendrickson / LTI - 100 ft aerial

Bought from Hagerstown MD than sold as scrap.

#27 - 2005 Sutphen - 70 foot 1250 gpm with 400 gal. tank

#28 -2005 Sutphen Sheild - 1500 gpm with 1000 gal. tank

#29 - 2006 Ford F-350 / Reading - Utility 2

#30 - 1996 Ford F-250 with wildland skid unit.

300 gpm with 150 gal. tank and 5 gal. of class A- foam

For many years the Waynesboro Fire Department operated a Salvation Army canteen truck out of the South Potomac Street Station (Unit 2-8)

Always There Ambulace Squad

1948 Packard Henny Ambulance

1954 Packard Henny Ambulance

Now owned by the Waynesboro Ambulance Squad.

1961 Twin International Ambulances

1964 Cadillac Ambulance

1969 Oldsmobile Ambulance

Chevrolet - Totaled responding to a bursh fire

1973 - F-350 Ford / SWAB

1975 Dodge / Custom Coach Company at a cost of $25,840.00

We are still looking for photos of the last two ambulance own by the ATH&L.

Both should be type III Hortons

Memoral Park 1960

Engine 2-3 At the first Pennslvania Pump Primers in Harrisburg PA - 1976

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