How a Mistake Turned into a Community's Pride and Joy!

No matter how much you plan things something always changes. The Lafayette Fire Company was charted in 1943 and ordered their first new truck when it arrived in 1949 it was not the "color" they ordered but instead of getting upset or getting it repainted they just rolled with it and adopted the tradition of ORANGE as a fire truck. I have to personally say these rigs are sharp looking. Chief David Keens and crew walk us through this week's Station Cribs episode. A house that was completed in 2011 still looks new today because of the dedication and innovations this station has taken to keep up with the demands of volunteers staffing the trucks.

The station is beautiful but it's the people that make this station run. Their vision states: "The volunteers of the Lafayette Fire Company of East Lampeter Township are committed to providing a level of emergency services that continually improve the quality of life, health, and safety of the people we serve."

Direct from their website is this bio:

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[RJSAMCRO]

This Chief is a no nonsense straight to the point. I could be wrong but it's almost like he wrote the script for this episode and there are not to many re-take bloopers. LOL

[reynoldrosa]

If you think Orange and Smurf Blue are unique, the Miami-Dade fire Department paints all of it's fire trucks, boats and helicopters a yellow/lime green color. The only exceptions are Engine 3 and Rescue 3 which are painted red to honor the firefighters that lost their lives on 9/11.

[commonsense]

I think its insane how old and well maintained these trucks are.

Where I live they have it good, All Trucks are replaced every 6-8 years. And the old ones is sold abroad.
But they do also get some proper funding, and all equipment is bought by the state for every single department.
So when you order 50 Trucks you tend to get a pretty big discount on them.

[chuckman]

Staffed houses save lives and property. Great job Lafayette.

[WillyPete-fhfv]

Another great video! Long live the volunteer Firefighter! Here in Australia the "professionals" are trying to get rid of us! We had an incident which involved volunteer and paid "professional" firefighters. The professionals refused to take orders from the incident officer, because he was from a volunteer brigade . Don't let this happen in the USA.

[awmperry]

I love the fact that they brought back the original orange engine and built a whole museum around it. Really nice regard for heritage.

[Bobbyd]

INTEGRITY OVERLOAD ! PRIDE ! THANK YOU BROTHER MIKE ! CANT KEP A GOOD "MACK" DOWN ! LOVIN IT ! 🇺🇲

[theobscurity]

The orange is beautiful, very eye catching. Eleanor WV uses bright yellow, and South Charleston WV uses Black with an orange Z stripe. Great looking units

[BostonJonny]

Super well kept station and immaculate apparatus! Lafayette is living the motto "Take care of those who take care of you" and if their dept softball/ bowling team is not call "The Tangerines"....

[Dieseldickrick]

Gotta do Manheim Township and East Hempfield too. Awesome stations and rigs. Tillers too.

[lawxx]

I've been watching a few of these videos and it blows my mind. My engine alone had over 4, 600 calls in 2023. My firehouse is crap with no space and lots of issues. These companies are fully volunteer and have a mansion to work out of! Not their fault at all, I just don't understand how city politicians think it's OK to use us as a stepping stone for their political motives. The IAFF and local unions of cities need to do better. What an amazing firehouse!

[LakesRegionEmergencyPhoto]

Probably my favorite so far, the orange rigs are the BEST. I always love non-red trucks. very unique. Edit: a full duty crew of volunteers is also super sweet. Lower response times!

[patrickmcmahon]

Love the catch phrase "Solving all the worlds problems" lol.... Great video

[mysterymayhem]

you know its a busy house when the chief is walking and talking while sleeping (his eyes were closed) 13:33

[samuelwatson]

33:36 My favourite part. Got caught by Hero's Next Doors 😂😂

[iamReddington]

If I had seen their fire trucks in a picture prior to watching this, I'd have said ew. but after watching and hearing about how it was a mistake that they then embraced, I'm all for it! It looks so odd, but it also seems to fit perfectly. Their station and rigs are amazingly beautiful.

[brandongaines]

I like how Mike describes having a "new challenge" as being "very good"! A busy mind is a more resilient mind :-)

[centredoorplugsthornton]

"Commuter and freight railroad." The commuter rail is Amtrak's Philadelphia-Harrisburg line.

[scottstewart]

That Orange does catch the eye for sure! Looks Great!

[Leotheconstructionguy]

That is crazy how clean and new that 1990 f350 looks wow 😮