St. Louis County Vehicles...
It was not that Fitch was standing for it. The cars were on a long waiting list to be fixed. I'll have to follow up on the situation currently and let you know.
I must apologize - I've been tied up with some projects, as well as some doctor's appointments. I wanted to get the list below to you sooner but wasn't able to until now. With the last few weeks averaging well over 102-105 for most of the days and the heat index ranging from at least 109-115 and higher, there's no question a number of vehicles will have had problems! The NWS has reported that much of this is unprecidented and we've set some (unwanted!) records. The list below consists of St. Louis County Departments which use marked and unmarked vehicles and the pool is large! There are also some other vehicles (not that many) which are not included on the list.
465 Patrol officer vehicles (not including their supervisors)
Emergency Operations Personnel
Highway Safety Team
Tactical Operations Unit (We call them TACT AKA SWAT)
Metro Air Support Unit (several drive patrol cars)
Spirit Airport Detail
Metrolink Police Unit (a few drive marked or unmarked cars)
Drug Interdiction
Canine Units
Crime Scene Investigation Division
Crime Scene Investigation Vans
Drug Enforcement Personnel
Crimes Against Persons Detectives
Crimes Against Property Detectives
Computer and Financial Fraud Detectives
Family Crimes Detectives
There are a couple of other departments which use marked and unmarked cars...I'm sorry, I didn't have time to get you a full count of exactly how many vehicles are in use but I think it's somewhere between 750-800.
Shelley