Super Pumper book, published by Fire Apparatus Journal and written by John Calderone, $20.00.
Nice old 2 1/2" brass nozzle manufactured by Elkhart Brass, the bale is marked Colt. Unpolished and great condition, $175.00.
FDNY 12 inch truckman with saw, tic and other tools, $10.00.
N-tek fire rescue 12 inch firefighter, $5.00
Matchbox in packs $1.00 each, two loose Matchbox and Hot Wheels, 75 cents each.
Same as above, $1.00 and 75 cents.
Funrise, larger than matchbox cars with working lights and sirens but they all need batteries, 75 cents each.
Hess truck $5.00, figure and dump truck $1.00 each and the five pack is $5.00 or I will break them up for $1.00 each.
Two Pa. State Police cars that were hard to find $5.00 each, loose Matchbox 75 cents each.
Three in packs $1.00 each, the micros are $1.00 each for the two American LaFrance rigs and the other three including the two Matchbox size cars are 25 cents each.
Cars movie fire trucks, the larger one is $1.00 and all the smaller one are 75 each. Sold pending payment.
The two Hot Wheels Ahrens Fox rigs were special productions, they are $2.00 each, the Boston rescue and Lebenon Seagrave are $3.00 each.
The two carded toys are $1.00 each and so is the special release chrome colored Hot Wheels, the other four Matchbox are 75 each.
Glove Strap for gear, $5.00. Please check my previous post for Shippensburg Fire Dept. items and stay tuned for more items, toys, axe's etc. coming soon.
SCBA cylinder carrying strap, $5.00.
Irons strap only used a couple of times, $10.00 or take all three of these items for $15.00.
Proximity suit in great condition, $25.00, not for use but a collection piece only. The kid does not go with the suit unless the price is right.
Old beer tray used to serve beer at bars many years ago, this is one of the few that featured a fireman on it, $30.00.
Reverse view to show writing around the edge.
Close up to show the damage to the tray that does not effect the fireman or display.
Code 3, 1/32 Diamond Plate Edition Squad 61, awesome detail, retails for $230.00 , yours for $100. 
Set of 10, 4 X 6 photos from the October 28, 2007 1100 block of Mainsville Road house fire. I have three sets of 10, $10.00 each. 
Many photos from the job in the first block of East King Street on July 31, 2006, $1.00 each. 
These key chains Haney had made for the Vigilant banquet in 2005 or 2006 but they were not shipped on time so he cancelled them. The dealer sold them out and I purchased about a dozen on Ebay a couple of years ago. Almost two inches in size and very nice, $2.00 each. 
I need to be very careful what I type in here to insure that I am not in the unemployment line also. For those of you that live in my area you already know what is going on since it has been the main attraction in the papers and news for the last 11 plus months. For those of you that do not live in my area then I will tell you that I have been a Harrisburg Pa fireman for more than 20 years know. Because of decisions NOT MADE BY THE FIREMEN the city finds itself in debt by almost $300 million dollars. It was decided that it would be fixed on the backs of the hard working firemen so effective January 1, 2011, 10 of my brothers will be laid off. These guys worked hard to get this job, passing numerous tests waiting long periods of time, completing a fire academy and most of all uprooting their families from their homes and moving them into the city as a condition of employment. They would also like to close the Paxton Station, the only one located in the high hazard downtown area. Our work schedule will also be changed to 24 hours on and 48 hours off raising our work week an additional 14 hours per week. Along with the downsizing to three platoons nine officers will be demoted. I would like to point out that the scheduling change is all in violation of our contract. Please do not believe everything you see and hear on the television, for some reason they all appear to be on the take. We have presented cold hard facts about just who did create this mess and why our overtime is so high along with many other items to channels 43, 27, 8, 21 and the bathroom wipe my ass with it Harrisburg Patriot but for some reason the never air or print any of it. Yet just this morning (SAT) channel ABC 27 Dennis Owens was quick to point out that we (HFD) were given a four year contract extension by Mayor Steven Reed before he left office tying the hands of Thompson and creating her more heartache. Why do they never mention that the other two unions were also given extensions or even that ours does not go into effect until January 1, 2013, so how is that effecting us now. I will not even go into the differences between the contracts and what the police get compared to us. But if you visit the cities web site the contracts are on there.
Because of my work schedule and other commitments and the lack of anyone looking or contributing other than Sparky this will be my last post for some time. I may post again sometime in the future so please stop back from time to time to check. By the way when I retire next week, next year or whenever it may be, I will be glad to set here and type away.
Thanks
Tired, pissed off, confused and just plain fed up, Brad, Union steward, Local 428 IAFF
Today I have a couple more photos sent to me recently by Dave Myers. I only know what I can see about the photos so I will be guessing here. The first one is Danny Byers operating Engine 152, I do not know where it was taken or if it was a real fire or training but he has one cross lay flowing and two three inch lines coming off discharges. The second photo is John "Chet" Sommerville, setting in front of the Vigilant's. I can only assume that the Dalmatian belonged to Larry Kerns. Like I said a week or so ago if you like these and want to see more send me what you have and I will be glad to post them. They make life easier on me also when I am looking for something to post. Thanks again Dave.
Today's post is like yesterday's, just filling space. If your answer yesterday was that you didn't want to just see space fillers sorry but this was uploaded and posted the same time as yesterdays. These are the eight blog headers I have used in the almost three years of posting to this site. I never numbered them so I do not know the order they appeared except for the one with no lettering was first and the last one is the present. Some of you have been here since the beginning and have seen all of these in the past others may be new and are now seeing them for the first time. I guess it is about time to make a new one.
Sometimes I come across days that I have no more major incidents to report. At times I fill them by featuring a rig from Shippensburg or a county fire company. Some days I just skip because I have nothing at all prepared. That is the case today but I had these two adds ready so I decided to post them. The first one is of the Goodwill ambulance in Chambersburg taken from a 1926 trade journal. The second add for Alco-lite ladders contained the 1959 CV American LaFrance engine and is from a 1960's Fire Engineering magazine. When I have days like these would you rather I skip the post or post something else from the past like I did today? Click on the photos for a larger version and to read the captions.
Todays post will be quick and easy for me, I had no more jobs to post for today and no time to prepare anything else. Not wanting to skip to many days I decided to post a cartoon that appeared in the June 18, 1928 edition of the Evening News Harrisburg.
I was having trouble finding an incident to report today and did not have the time to keep looking or post something else. Since Chief Murray has strong ties to the Shippensburg Fire Department and this is occurring today I decided to post it.
On June 7, 2008 Washington D.C. Engine Company 17 was dedicated in the memory of its longest serving member, the late Jackson H. Gerhart.