![]() However the mention that this engine wouldn't go into pump gear, and that their (the SFD's) entire fleet of engines don't have manual pump shift override features, really astonished me. ![]() Now, the victims in this fire didn't stand a chance anyways-not matter if the rig had pump correctly, because when this first engine arrived on-location, smoke and flames were pouring from every opening of this structure. Turns out that this rig-and all of Seattle's engines-don't have a manual pump shift override lever. Now the department is investigating what went wrong with that apparatus (a mid-90's E-One). ![]() It was reported that the engine wouldn't transfer from road to pump gear. ![]() Some of you may have heard of the 5-fatality apartment fire in Seattle's Fremont neighborhood last Saturday, and that the first-in engine couldn't pump water.
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