Isnt this a return to the 1970s style engine-squad started in LA County? The purpose of ALS engines was to reduce personnel costs. Why have an engine and squade with 6 people, when an ALS engine can do the same work with 4? If we need to reduce fire department responses, why not arrange for private ambulances to handle BLS calls by themselves and save fire units for more serious incidents. For example, why do we send a 4-person ALS engine company to a nursing home or doctors office for a stable patient in need of transport? There are better, more cost-effective ways to do business; I dont know that this is it.

No these trucks are 2007-2008 Ford f-450 and the capartments for the trucks are diffrent from the 1970 trucks LA County Fire started.