Well, I know I'd enjoy taking a look at whatever photos you care to post. Probably a lot of other people would too.

Holy moly, that is pretty impressive. But I couldn't help to think: some poor rookie bastard probably had to put all that sh*t back in that truck... <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" /> Must have taken a while.

J

According to Urban Legend all patrol cars carry a case of Coca-Cola to clean up blood spills ! <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

How could I forget this...when we first became EMT's (only 400 in the entire state of CA), they gave us what they called "Mountain Rescue" training, and made us carry a bright orange bag in the trunk with 100 ft of rappeling rope, harness,'biners, slings, all kinds of stuff. Just what you need in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, where there are no mountains, or even molehills...

Its funny how some places have the $ and gear while others don't. I used to install dispatch systems, the 911 ANI/ALI systems, CAD systems, etc so I've been to a lot of places. Southern Ohio there are two counties side by side and countly level both built new dispatch centers around the same time with the e911 funding. Gallia county built a nice two story building, both floors divided in half down the middle. Upper floor one side was the offices, other side the dispatch room, bottom floor under that room was the equipment room and the other half was empty space where they could setup anything they needed with folding tables and chairs. They had two heating and cooling systems, one for each half of the building and if one failed they could open the doors and one system could heat or cool the whole building. They had a secondary phone system paralleling the first so if the first died they would just switch to the second and pull the secondary phones out from under the desks. They had dual power feeds, one from OH and one from KY so failure of one they would just run from the other and a big generator outisde with a gas station sized tank underground.
Then the county next to them the dispatch center was built in Loudenville. It was along the main street in town in two old houses that were close enough together they joined them as one. I had to run wiriing in the basement of those old houses through the tangled mess that had been there for years and the houses were so old the foundation was big rocks stacked up, no cement or morter or anything. Their police cheif used his own personal vehicle, an old truck and Gallias police chief had a department proviced Ford Bronco decked out with all kinds of gear.
But it shows that you can't rely on anyone but yourself, you could get lucky and be in a place which has all the good toys or you could be in a place which doesn;t have anything and when you call because your stranded they call the nearest farmer and he arrives on his old tractor hours later to help.

Well, I could not find any really good overview photos - you don't seem much more than 10-20 rigs in any of them, and none of the interesting stuff (unless you want to loook at a Salvation Army Canteen truck, and/or a bunch over overweight hams - particularly me)

That truck is awesome. How about THAT for a bug out vehicle? <img src="/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Where I live, if you break down on an interstate, the Illinois State Police call a tow truck prety much immediately. If you can't get your car moving within just a minute or so of them checking your drivers license and registration and insurance, you're pretty much stuck with the bill unless you have already called a tow. They will verify that you have called, too. My brother was trailing me in a pickup with two tanks. The first tank ran dry and he didn't know to switch tanks, so the truck died at the exit we needed to take. I was turning around and coming back (about a 20 min. process on the interstate, made into 30 min. by the time I realized he wasn't following) and by the time I figured out what had happened, the tow truck had already picked him up. I drove up to the tow truck backing up to the pickup. A cell phone or even GRMS/FRS (or me thinking of telling my brother about the tanks in the first place) would have saved us $75. That was maybe 8-10 years ago, so policy may have changed.

All of the cops I know, a city cop, county cop and state trooper, all carry tons of stuff in their trunks.

what's interesting is - last night, I'm waiting to pick up Chinese take out, and 2 ESU officers walk in - yep, a truck just like that one was out front. Dinner run for Truck E10

Having run with both of them a number of times (former NYC Medic) I can tell you that the ESU Motto is:Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, above or below the water. (That's what their shirts say)

You are right though....when you have a problem you call 911. when the police have a problem they call ESU! And yes there is a great rivalry going on.....I will say this though.....you can get 2 back boarded patients INSIDE of Rescue 5. I've done it. You should have seen the ER nurses faces when we pulled up in that thing!!!! (Long Story behind that call......)

There was a series on TV in the late 80's called "True Blue". It revolved around the officers in one of the ESU TRUCK 1.

TRUE BLUE - synopsis at tv.com

Article on production of TRUE BLUE