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Patient Man,

There are NFPA guidelines for replacement of fire engines and ladder trucks. Typically 10-15 years for an Engine and 15-20 for a ladder, as a frontline (everyday) truck. Obviously smaller departments don’t use equipment as much so these are just guidelines. Engines 5 is approaching 20 years old. Engine 8 is 24 years old. Engine 2 is 15 years old. Engine 1 is around 12 years old. The members of the department have written many grants for new fire trucks. Replacing many by grant. (City only pays 10%). The city has only purchased 1 or 2 fire trucks at full value in over a decade. We have been doing more with less for a while. We will continue to make due with what we are provided. Warwick is not a “slow” department, we do in the area of 18,000 calls a year. Hope that gives you some idea of expectancy.