288 Foot Aerial Ladder
How high is your aerial ladder ladder? Shanghia, China, is getting some new apparatus with very tall aerial ladders (from ShanghaiDaily.com).
SHANGHAI government will establish 15 public fire stations this year and equip them with imported fire trucks with 88-meter scaling ladders, Shanghai Evening Post report today.The city has more than 4,000 high-rise buildings, which typically have more than 16 floors. The 88-meter ladder will reach more people when fires break out in these skyscrapers.
Here is the conversion: 88 meters = 288 feet. Zoicks!
Roanoke Firefighters has a post on this type of rig from a couple of months ago. It is a Bronto Skylift. Here is the website.
