Exempting Fire Apparatus from EPA engine standards

Hello group,

I don't know if you have been keeping up with the new EPA standards for new engines, but it appears that the EPA is going to drive the cost up to a point ,that a new apparatus may be to costly to purchase. The new standards that goes into effect 2010, may lead Cummings and Detroit to pull out of the Emergecy Services Market.

Brothers, we need to flood our congressmen with letters demanding that fire apparatus be placed in the same catogory as military vehicles and exempt from EPA standards. They (congress) must be made to understand that our fire apparatus has to perform and where it is responding EPA standards are shot to hell with the material burning!

We firefighters, as a group, have the highest number of american voters in this country! Believe me letters and call will make your congressman listen, especially when the great numbers are mentioned of our voter input.

Our fire apparatus is our nations first line of defence when something goes terribly wrong in our communities. I am writing and going to call my senators and ask them to introduce a bill exempting American Fire and Emergency apparatus to be exempt from EPA standards. Please join me in this endivor.

Take care and be safe!
Bob