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Good question! We have several shop facilities located across the state region by region...we have 5 regions, so 5 major shops. These regional locations also deal with recreation and park vehicles mostly. Most of the fire districts have their own shop facilities, which can be pretty...

The "bar-work" as we call it is to protect the truck as it pushes over trees; allow me to explain... In the southeastern portion of Massachusetts, and also New Jersey, these trucks are called brush breakers, and are literally used to make their own roads through the woods to the fire. They are...

Couple more...

Got another couple pics for you guys today...

Cummington has A LOT of excess property equipment...as you will no doubt see when you go to pick it up. Possible they got it when another town turned it in, so that they could use it for parts. However I do know that District 12 Forest Fire Control had a tanker at one point, which they ended up...

These trucks all belong to the state forestry fire control bureau, they are all over the state. Some of the ones shown are stationed in Erving, Amherst, North Andover, Plymouth, Sandwitch, Templeton, Townsend, Leominster.....

Here are a couple more....amongst them, a water buffalo and a flood-light trailer. the last picture I cannot take credit for, it is from a fire buff website, but its such a neat truck that I wanted to share it! '43 GMC, pictures from ericsfirepics.com. Also the M35 tanker picture shown here...

Yup that would be the big E! Deffinately a cool place to check out if your a fire buff. As a sidenote, those brush gaurds on the front of the FWDs, are actually filled with cement to keep them from crumpling when they push over trees (they can do this on cape cod's sandy soil). [thumbzup]

Hey nice! I didnt realize anyone on here would know about the Bureau! Small world. Yeah, that FWD is actually still in service...unfortunately kept outside however. I know that they were planning on making the a3 into an 'urban-interface' vehicle at some point. We have one too to replace our...

Actually, Massachusetts is largely forested, as the urban areas are really concentrated to the Eastern portion. Southeastern mass is largely a pine barren like new jersey, with sandy soils. These types of fuels can take off very quickly. We actually are one of the states with the most fire...

and heres some of them working!

haha I like that! Yeah, thats "Smokey's Jeep" he rides on it in parades, etc As for more pictures, I got some here for you guys! No videos of 'em as of yet, but I have a few of some of them at fires. The picture in my avatar is our 1964 Dodge Power wagon (I included a picture here), its my...

Hey thanks guys! Here are a few more. Some of these don't look like ex-military, but they really are. The wonders of the federal excess property program!

I thought that you guys might be interested in seeing some of the military vehicles that we use at work! A couple 5-tons, a3's, quite a few a2s.....Ill post more if you guys are interested!