A virtual repeat of the highly successful event held there five years earlier, the 2001 SPAAMFAA Winter Meeting returned to sunny San Bernardino, California for a second time under the auspices of theSouthern California Chapter in mid-February. The founding Central New York Chapter hosted this year’s big Summer Convention/Muster in Syracuse. This otherwise enjoyable event was marred by the first serious accident in SPAAMFAA history. A 1963 ALF tractor-trailer aerial ladder truck capsized on the show field, it’s extended 100’ ladder crashing down on a 1920 American-LaFrance pumper parked for pumping on the shore of Onondaga Lake. Although there were no injuries, the incident sparked a thorough review of the Society’s muster safety rules and guidelines.

After putting out exactly 100 issues over a period of 25 years, Walt McCall retired as Editor of Enjine!-Enjine! His final issue was 2002-4. Southwest Ohio Chapter member Steve Hagy of Edgewood, Ky. was appointed Walt’s successor – only the third Editor our club publication has had since Dick Horstmann put out his first hand-typed SPAAMFAA Newsletter 44 years earlier,