The Hebron (KY) Fire Department was founded in 1939 with a single station, grew over the years to have a second station, and in July of 2025 merged with the neighboring Point Pleasant Fire Department to add a third station. The department covers a fire district of 49 square miles with runs of 3,500 calls a year.
The department has 72 paid full-time firefighter/paramedics/emergency medical technicians (EMTs) who staff two engines, one quint, two advanced life support (ALS) ambulances, and a rescue boat for water emergencies.
Hebron Fire sold a 2020 aerial platform that had served the department’s needs for a time, with the rig only being manned for structure fires, says Alex Reisenbeck, Hebron Fire’s captain. “After the platform sale, we still had a 2012 E-ONE 78-foot aerial ladder quint that we got through the merger with Point Pleasant Fire, which needed to be replaced, so we went to E-ONE and purchased a demo unit Metro 100 aerial ladder quint which was going to come into Vogelpohl Fire Equipment’s inventory.”
Reisenbeck notes that the department was originally looking for a smaller aerial ladder truck, but when it saw that Vogelpohl would have a 100-foot Metro 100 available, they quickly were sold on it. “This was one of E-ONE’s Select Series trucks, a 100-foot straight stick aerial on a single rear axle that they were able to build in a quick turnaround time of just one year,” he says. “Our firefighters absolutely love this new truck.”
Adam Jones, apparatus salesman for Vogelpohl Fire Equipment, says the Metro 100 aerial ladder quint for Hebron is an E-ONE HR100 single rear axle aerial ladder quint on a Cyclone cab and medium chassis with a split raised roof and seating for four firefighters, three of them in H.O. Bostrom self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) seats with Bostrom SecureAll brackets. The rig also has a Weldon V-MUX mulitplex system with Vista control panels for the driver and officer, a wheel well medical cabinet on the officer’s side of the crew cab with both interior and exterior access, and a heavy duty extruded aluminum body with high side rescue style compartments on both sides.
The truck has a 100-foot-long welded aluminum rear-mount aerial ladder with advanced aerial controls, Jones says, and is powered by a 500-horsepower (hp) Cummins X12 engine, and an Allison 4000 EVS automatic transmission with a Jake brake. Wheelbase on the truck is 235 inches, overall length is 39 feet 8 inches, and overall height is 11 feet 7 inches.
Jones points out that the Metro 100 has a Hale DSD 1,500-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump, a 480-gallon water tank, a 20-gallon foam tank, and a FoamPro 2002 foam system. The quint has a Task Force Tips (TFT) Flex 1,500-gpm aerial monitor with a valve under the monitor, a 2½-inch discharge, and a pinnable waterway, as well as a 1¾-inch hoseline in a front bumper compartment, and two 1¾-inch hose crosslays and one 2½-inch hose crosslay.
Reisenbeck points out that the E-ONE quint’s ground ladder complement in an enclosed slide-in rear compartment includes one three-section 35-foot extension ladder, one two-section 28-foot extension ladder, one two-section 24-foot extension ladder, one 16-foot and one 14-foot roof ladder, and one 10-foot folding attic ladder. In addition, there’s a 14-foot roof ladder and a Stokes basket on the base section of the aerial, a Little Giant Model 17 ladder on the top of the body, and a Sidestacker hosebed on the right side of the body holding 800 feet of 5-inch large diameter hose (LDH) and 500 feet of 3-inch hose.
The rig has a Federal Q2B siren, a Whelen electronic siren, Whelen M6 LED warning lights, Whelen LED Freedom IV Mini light bars, HiViz FireTech 12-volt LED scene lights on the brow and the sides of the cab and body, HiViz FireTech LED lighting at the ladder’s tip, an 8-kilowatt (kW) Harrison Hydraulic generator, and a 200-foot electric cord reel with outlets on each side of the body.
ALAN M. PETRILLO is a Tucson, Arizona-based journalist who has served as a newspaper reporter, editor, and magazine writer and is a member of the Fire Apparatus & Emergency Equipment Advisory Board. He served 22 years with the Verdoy (NY) Fire Department, including in the position of chief.
