Mount Sinai Fire Department
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Engine 5A-5-2 - 2015 Pierce Saber PUC 4x4 1500 gpm/750 gal.
Responding first due from Headquarters, this rig was designed to better meet the needs of the department during storm response. Located on the waterfront bordering the Long Island Sound, Mount Sinai’s response area was hit particularly hard during Hurricane Sandy in 2012 thereby prompting the necessity for this rig.
Engine 5A-5-6 - 2010 Pierce Velocity 1500 gpm/750 gal.
First due from Station 1, it is equipped with a full set of Genesis® extrication tools and equipment for mutual aid Rapid Intervention Team response.
Engine 5A-5-3 - 2003 Pierce Dash 1500 gpm/500 gal.
This rig was purchased in 2008 from the Syosset FD in neighboring Nassau County (hence its’ Maroon paint scheme) following their fleet update.
Ladder 5A-5-5 (Retired) - 1978 Mack CF/Baker 75’ Aerialscope
This rig has had quite a storied career having served four different volunteer fire departments in New York State over a span of 42 years!
Originally serving the North Massapequa FD (in neighboring Nassau County on Long Island), it served until 2001 when replaced by an American LaFrance Eagle/LTI 93’ mid-mount ladder tower (which was destroyed after catching fire on Christmas Day 2019 heavily damaging NMFD's headquarters and apparatus). The Dix Hills FD (in neighboring Suffolk County where Mount Sinai is located) then acquired this rig when the department began looking to integrate an aerial device into their operations due to the changing landscape of their response area including larger homes on set back properties. Ladder 2-8-6 was placed into service in 2001 at Station 1 where it responded district wide - when the boom failed it’s aerial inspection, the department purchased a new custom Pierce 75’ rear mount aerial quint in 2006 (due to be replaced in 2022 with a new Pierce Ascendant aerial quint). The Mack was first offered back to North Massapequa who declined the offer after which it was sold in “as is” condition to Mount Sinai who was also looking to evaluate adding a truck company into their operations.
It was then sent out to Seagrave for a year long rebuild including a complete overhaul of the boom to make it compliant to pass inspection. Just as in Dix Hills, it operated out of Station 1 responding district wide as a truck company until it was involved in an accident in 2018 with another department's engine while responding on mutual aid to a working fire. The fire district opted not to retain the rig and provided it to the Terry Farrell Firefighters Fund, a non-profit organization created in memory of FDNY Rescue 4 Firefighter Terry Farrell who was lost on 9/11/01. The "Terry Fund" which provides donations of used equipment and apparatus to departments nationwide then provided this rig to the Speculator VFD in Hamilton County, New York where it responded countywide as one of only two aerial devices in the county. It was later replaced with a 2020 Sutphen Monarch SP-70 70'/1500/500 mid-mount aerial tower quint funded almost entirely through a FEMA AFG grant. This workhorse Aerialscope was then acquired by a local fire chief/apparatus collector, it is now enjoying retirement in South Carolina (in a climate controlled warehouse) alongside several other Long Island Mack CF model rigs.Mount SinaiMackAerialscopeTower LadderNorth MassapequaDix HillsRetired
Heavy Rescue 5A-5-4 - 1998 Pierce Quantum
This rig replaced a 1975 Ford C/Saulbury walk-in rescue which was then converted as the response vehicle for the marine rescue/dive team. Featuring an on-board winch, generator and light tower, it is equipped with Genesis® extrication tools (on-board and portable), air bags, rescue struts, Sawzall® brand cordless hand tools and rope rescue gear.
Rescue 5A-5-1 - 2016 Ford F550 4x4/2017 Firematic B.R.A.T. 300 gpm/250 gal.
Responding first due from Station 1 for motor vehicle accidents, this rig is outfitted with Genesis® extrication tools. It features a front mount winch, telescoping floodlights
and a booster reel.
5A-5-Antique - 1938 Ford
Originally operated by Mount Sinai, this rig later served the neighboring Port Jefferson FD before returning home where it is now maintained as a parade piece.
