As the 20th Century wound down, SPAAMFAA national membership exceeded 3,500. One new chapter – Southern Colorado – received its charter this year.

The Florida Chapter hosted the 1999 Winter Convention & Muster in Orlando in February. Among the attractions – including a full-fledged summer-style antique fire apparatus muster – was a tour of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral, with emphasis on the spaceport’s extremely specialized fire department. As in every third year, the Summer Convention/Muster returned to Syracuse, N.Y. The program included a pleasant day trip to Old Forge, N.Y. in the Adirondacks, and a tour of the modern Saulsbury Fire Apparatus plant in nearby Preble, N.Y. And Enjine!-Enjine! went to a new horizontal “landscape” format.