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Donald G. Pass, Blaine City Manager February 26, 1990 Donald F. Pauley, Mounds View Clerk -Administrator Page 3 Donald B. Busch, Spring Lake Park Clerk -Treasurer Ladder 12 At the present time, Ladder 12 at Station 3 is approaching obsolescence. In the early 70's we converted a 1953 GMC tanker to this ladder truck, and in the late 70's a new chassis was installed. Now the crew cab, which we built, and the original body are rusting away. I thought we could refurbish this unit; however, the people at General Safety, a fire truck manufacturer at North Branch, said otherwise. One of the items I planned to address under the refurbishing was the alteration of the ladder rack for longer ladders. The ladders we presently carry will not reach the highest buildings in District 2, the first response area of this unit. Further, because of the design of many of the homes in North Oaks West, conventional ground ladders would not work. Hence we have included an aerial device as a replacement, probably some type of platform rig. With a hydraulic ladder we do not need the same amount of manpower to operate it as we do to raise a 35 or 40 foot ground ladder. In most cases one person is all that is needed. Van At the present time we do not have any type of command/communication vehicle that we could u:.e at large or complicated incidents such as a HazMat call, large grass/woods fires, multiple alarm calls, etc. We need someplace to store all of our reference material, have a place for the Incident Commander to confer with his staff and outside agencies, and have the communication capabilities to coordinate all the needed activity. This has sorely been lacking and given the current method of funding the Capital Budget, we have never included it because all the funds were going to main line fire apparatus. I will be contacting each of you in the very near future to set up a date when we can meet to discuss our proposal. 1 Run Fagersirom RF/js Attachment