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Pat yes, year after year the runs have gone up, and will again this year and contrary to what some have stated each run is a separate run, not apparatus response. Meaning if 3 engines, 2 ladders special hazards and a rescue respond it's 1 run number not 7 as some have tried to claim. Bob I can't give you trends. I can only say that the city has not bought a fire engine since 2007 and that engine (E-1) has almost 120,000 miles. We are using a 1993 reserve engine as E-4. These trucks are not like Fire engines that sit at some volunteer fire station and do 150 calls a year. They take a beating. E-1 does 4000+ calls a year, E-9 does 3000+ calls a year. E-9 is a 1999 and has over 170,000 miles. E-5 and E-8 are older and have around 160,000 miles. These are hard miles. The city should be replacing a rescue a year. They are the workhorse and do the most runs. And breakdown with patients in the back quite often. The repair decision is overwhelmed, as soon as the snow starts to fall we take a backseat. L-1 needs to be replaced as does L-3. I blame the city and chief for not having an adequate replacement schedule. Now we are going to try and have to replace 4 or 5 engines and and you and Roy and stacia and rob are going to sit up there and blame the union somehow for needing trucks whe we have reported year after year that the trucks are deteriorating. Pretty soon we will be using trash trucks with water in them to put out fires. Whatever as long as it works and doesn't kill us....