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St. Louis actually did it twice. First iteration was a bond election to go to the TQC plan making every company a "Quint" (either a Pierce with a 50' tele-squrt or a Sp/LTI 75') with only 4-100' aerials remaining (1-at the airport). They then realized buying all rigs at the same time meant they...

Talking with a friend who worked on the LAFD project the current cost is basically twice that of a conventional engine. $700k engine = $1.4M engine. Plus approximately $250k to modify the station for the charging system.

FEMA has been trying to minimize air transport over the past couple of years if possible. TX-TF1 is in College Station and cached for truck OR air transport like all others. During Harvey all USAR assets into Texas came by road transport organic to the team.

But that also includes all the BLS, ALS and EMS Supervisor personnel. That number is not jut suppression.