This class will cover fireground operational considerations where a quint ladder or a nontraditional ladder truck (i.e., aerial apparatus with stored CAFS) is the only truck on the alarm. Many U.S. fire departments of varying sizes use nontraditional ladder trucks on the fireground. Smaller suburban fire departments are often challenged with traditional truck functions being completed by a nontraditional truck. How a department uses this apparatus will differ depending on the resources available to the organization, staffing, training, and department culture. The focus is on the importance of truck work but from a nontraditional truck that is capable of stretching a hoseline. The big question is, when do you stretch the line and work as an engine and when do you decide to position and work as a truck? Learn the pros/cons of operating a quint or nontraditional truck, lessons learned by others who have worked on them, and general operating guidelines.