Station Location: 12065 West McMillan Street
Station Call Letters: WPJW744
Units in Quarters: Engine 10
History of Station 10
Station 10 was built in 1994, opening for service with an open house to the public. This was a new construction and not a move of a former station. Matching the same building construction design as Station 2 on Cartwright Road in the downtown area, the new station would service the westernmost part of Boise city in the area of Hewlett-Packard. The first engine in the firehouse was a HME/3D 1500-gpm engine. For a very short period of time an older brush rig from the Whitney fire district occupied the station, and was soon put out in back to make room for the Ada County Bomb Unit truck.
In October, 2004, the Ada County Paramedics stationed their Medic 28 unit in the bay the Ada County Bomb Unit had been in. Medic 28 continues to operate out of this station.
In 2008, Station 10 took possession of their new BME/Spartan engine, which is the current engine. The logos on the doors of the apparatus were changed in 2011 to a white Maltese cross with the Boise Fire Department logo at the top.
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ENGINE 10 is a 2007 Spartan/Boise Mobile Equipment (BME) 1500 gpm pumper.
The chassis is a Spartan Gladiator Classic series chassis with a cab that
seats four. There is additional storage for equipment in roll-up cabinets
location between the front seats and the back on the outside of the cab.
The body is built by Boise Mobile Equipment. It has a 500
gallon tank and Hale pump. It is powered by a 400 hp Detroit diesel engine,
which has been made compliant with the new EPA standards for diesel
emissions. The lighting is packaged by Federal Signal. It was the first of four new Spartan/BME
engines to go into service in this order for four new apparatus and the
first to go into service.. Other specifications are as follows:
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