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According to the Daily Breeze, a fire truck collided with a [UP] train at Oxford Ave. in Hawthorne on Tuesday 5/6. No one injured; fire truck was towed; train continued on.
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quote:Originally posted by MPALMER: According to the Daily Breeze, a fire truck collided with a [UP] train at Oxford Ave. in Hawthorne on Tuesday 5/6. No one injured; fire truck was towed; train continued on.
Could you tell what fire truck it was? Im in a club that focuses on fire apparatus.
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I don't know if were in the same club or not, but I'm part of CFE. I believe that LA Co E161 is a Pierce that used to belong to the City of Hawthorne.
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quote:Originally posted by chipsca: I don't know if were in the same club or not, but I'm part of CFE. I believe that LA Co E161 is a Pierce that used to belong to the City of Hawthorne.
Yeah CFE as in lots of nice Crowns. I used to do the official site but had to turn it over to Mike Britt cause my laptop died.
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E161 was traveling North on Oxford on the way to a vehicle fire threatening a structure. Smoke was showing as they approached the scene so they probably were not thinking about the grade crossing. Where Oxford crosses the tracks is a semi blind crossing with passive warning signs. The train made contact with the apparatus just behind the fire apparatus engineer, right where the 2nd firefighter would have been sitting had this been a 4 man engine company. The train pushed the engine a hundred or so feet down the tracks before the engine ended up getting pushed completely off. The aftermath looked like the engine had parked too close to the tracks and got clipped by the train. Neither the train or fire engine appeared real damaged although E161 has not yet returned. It has been replaced by a late 80s early 90s Seagrave.
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This rig is probably at one of the LA County Fire Shops undergoing repairs. I know its not at the Fire Boneyard as of 1 sunday ago as the only stuff there is a couple of beat up pickups and an old seagrave tiller truck from Pomona. Hopefully this rig will go back in service. Having ridden in a fire engine with sirens going, I can imagine that it would be quite hard to hear a train coming especially if its a blind crossing.
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