That pupper was the real star of this station cribs

Mike, this turned out SO GOOD! Thank you for visiting our small norther Michigan department.

The dog is cute and interesting, almost never see them in stations nowadays. Also, you will hear anyone mention what he did with the tender/tanker in Michigan.

Great video! My Dad (John K. Van Raalte) helped start this Department decades ago, my brother John D. Van Raalte was involved as well and now 3 family members, JP Van Raalte, John H. Van Raalte and Abbi Van Raalte are members.

Next time I’m up that way ima visit. 😂 I wanna get some pics of that Hydrant truck. Keep up the great work sir.

Awesome small department, Leland Township should be so proud👍🇺🇸🇺🇸

Beautiful stations and beautiful locations!

Great range of equipement, for a small full Time crew, it create oportunity for paid on call (volunteer) to assist in a lot of capacity. You can also relies on your own equipement to provide the best service to your town.

The training g prop is referred to as a “doll house.” There commercial units available but one can be built easily. Great for fire behavior lessons!

26:21 The second apparatus bay seemed bigger than their second station, LOL. I love both their stations and rigs, really nice.

5,000 miles on the old 7.3. That's impressive. Very unique vehicle!

Would love to see station rigs on the hydrant truck

I live in Traverse City, this is cool to see content about a fire station that is so close to home😊

Fife Lake Springfield Fire Department (also in Northern Michigan about an hour or so East of Leland) has a similar truck to their hydrant truck. We have a 2011 F-350 with a Cummins powered Darley pump 1500 GPM call sign Water Supply 6.

Thank you for showing the two Station in Michigan. I like the idea of the Ford F-450 with 500 Gallons. Especially on a smaller size frame than a full size Engine. The NEW Engine's are so much bigger. The FD's. I remember from say 20 years ago would have mini Pumpers. Then they seem to go back to BIGGER Rigs. For this community, the pre fire plan, making sure the smaller Engine is first do. on narrow access, very important getting water to Fire on Long Drives where bigger Engine just can't fit. Very Professional set up, and they are asking locals too come join the Fire Department you need that in smaller community. That Pick up with the hose beds built is A+ for storage of attack lines.

The hose bed under the skid on the booster is an excellent idea.

Working in a predominantly rural county, I am really interested in the hydrant truck. It is great to see how they keep their apparatus in great shape, even for the age.

Love this channel wish you would have shown Sherlock some love

Mike I’ve said it before, this is by far the best videos on KZfaq. I’m going to buy some merch to support this channel. Love this brother.

So cool to see you in northern Michigan

Little disappointed you didn’t acknowledge the dog in the beginning. I wanted to see what he was doing there!!!

Should come to NW Montana.

Mike, You should visit Macomb township fire department fire station 1 in Macomb township michigan they have a lot of apparatus there and they have a new station

Can you do another Teaneck Ambulance video when they get their new ambulances

"Pierce Ladder" No Offense But I Believe Thats Classified As A Quint Sir

I love watching your KZfaq videos sir at some point you should visit penobscot county maine lots of great ffs and pretty cool trucks as well be safe and enjoy your summer

Mike, you missed a *_huge_* opportunity to trace the history of organized firefighting in the United States back to before the country even gained its independence. 7:31 That's a fire insurance mark. Its roots stretch back to 18th century England, where the well-off who could afford fire insurance would attach the mark to the front of their property to identify that structure as insured so the private fire brigades employed by the insurer would be summoned should that structure catch on fire. Meanwhile, commoners were at the mercy of citizens' bucket brigades, and if they weren't quick on their feet, the structure burned to the ground while the professionals stood by and watched it burn. That tradition crossed the ocean but wasn't quite as merciless in America--Ben Franklin founded the private Philadelphia Contributionship (with its iconic four interlocking hands-grasping-wrists fire mark) but was also keen enough to realize that fires in structures not covered by insurance also threatened those that were, so he was also instrumental in the creation of Philadelphia's publicly-funded Union Fire Company, who today operates under the Philadelphia Fire Department banner, and the oldest organized professional fire department in the United States. It also bears mention that Franklin's famous, "An Ounce of Prevention is worth a Pound of Cure," quote is from his anonymous letter to the _Philadelphia Gazette_ in 1735 when he spelled out the benefits of a professional, publicly-funded fire department. (EDIT: This also explains the friendly competition that still exists among formerly independent fire companies in the original 13 colonies. When municipal departments began to form in the 18th century, they competed directly with the existing privateers, who only got paid if they were the ones to put out the fire. Obviously, the incentive for them was to be the first on the scene, especially if that structure was insured by their employer. It's a tradition and mindset that exists today, even if the incentive to jump calls doesn't translate to a company's bottom line.)

departments around me have spreaders on all our fire department ambos

yall need to check out some fire departments in Monroe Michigan.

Mike You Should Come Visit Some North Carolina Departments

Mike I was curious to know what kind of alerting system does these stations have Is it a Siren, Whistle, Horn or paging system like the old Plectron type of system or individual pagers for all personnel As a retired Firefighter my station had a compressed air whistle then they went to a horn along with plectrons and finally ended up with personal pagers for all of us

Glad to see how departments outside of PA operate. Need to get outside of PA more often Mike!

These videos are sooo underated Question, do you guys stay in Michigan or do you move around the country

Anyone see the walker with what look like lights and stuff on it, towards the beginning when the when ti the second station.

Hey I think it would be interesting to go to Bend Fire in Oregon or Forest Grove Fire in Oregon. First department has 5 stations and the second only has two, but are both wroth visiting!

Excellent, just shared the video to my facebook group. So you can get more likes and subs 🧑🏻👍🏻🚒

Do harbor springs next!

Not one word about the pup :(

Im still at loss for the reason for the portable hydrant truck

What breed of dog? I have 1 I adopted that looks like him

you gotta try cincinnati station 18 or maybe the city of hamilton ohio fire department

That is my name

You should go to Grand Ronde Tribal emergency in oregon

omg 500 calls a year, i would love that bro, I do 300+ a month :(

I miss being a volunteer but unfortunately my career keeps me on the road

I really like to see how you guys do it in the USA. In the netherlands all fire fighter stations are goverment funded

Do Arizona next

I would say come to Paw Paw Illinois, but its not that interesting, very small department, 7 trucks and such. Be cool to see, I am a cadet there.

Okay what is a township? I’m from CA and that is not a thing here

They do have a casino up there that they got to cover that's why they have the ladder as well

Please do the Independent Hose company #1 of Frederick md. - Maryland's oldest volunteer Fire company.

Most fire departments in Michigan that aren't big cities like Grand Rapids or Detroit or anything like that what you think would be volunteer stations are actually paid on call guys and they usually have three full-time firemen at on at the station at a time so Plainfield Township has two stations and they have three full-time fireman at each station so there's a b and c Cruise so each station has nine full-time firefighters and the rest are paid on call that's the way it is pretty much and all the fire departments in Michigan the big cities just have a b and c shifts with no paid on call there may be a handful of truly volunteer stations in the entire state

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