Posts Categorized: Apparatus
Fire Chief Wants to Replace Fire Engines With Pickup Trucks
THE CITY OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, HAS DIRECTED the Fire Chief Laura Knapp to cut spending 10% over the next three years. So she has come up with a plan that the City Council loves to hear.
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Updated – Chicago Fire Engine Crash Injures Ten
CHICAGO FIRE DEPARTMENT ENGINE 62 was involved in a collision Tuesday evening around 6:23 pm that injured ten people including four firefighters.
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Do You Trust Your Firetruck? How Much?
And the people in the northeast suburb of Eltham will remember it as the day the firetruck drove into the flood waters.
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LODD – Ontario
A NIPISSING TOWNSHIP VFD FIREFIGHTER died Wednesday morning when the fire engine he was driving went off the road and rolled over, trapping him in the wreckage.
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5 Injured in Buffalo Fire Engine Crash
BUFFALO, NEW YORK, ENGINE 1 WAS INVOLVED in a vehicle collision while responding to an emergency call Monday night.
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Million-Dollar Tiller Truck Stays Parked
FOR THE PAST NINE MONTHS, SINCE MARCH a brand new $1 million ladder truck has been parked in a Quebec City, Quebec, firehouse due to a squabble over training and licensing issues.
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Rosenbauer Gets Job Security
ROSENBAUER AMERICA ANNOUNCED IN A press release Monday that the corporation has landed a contract worth $318.8 million to build 1,125 fire vehicles of all types for the Saudi Arabian government.
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The Janus 4000 – Another Tunnel Firetruck
The Mont Blanc Tunnel is about 7.2 miles in length and some 28 feet wide, two lanes.
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Pumper vs. Pickup Leaves 3 Injured in Texas
The engine was responding on an assist call to a working house fire when it was struck in the front right corner by a pickup truck in an intersection.
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Looking Back
Bring your fire-fighting forces up-to-date with a new, ruggedly-built Ward LaFrance apparatus.
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Firetruck Crash With Fatality – Pennsylvania – Updated
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Michelle Davis said the truck collided with a car, killing the driver of that car.
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Morning Lineup – December 3
Has your station been having any small-engine problems lately?
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Pickup Strikes Fire Truck – Driver Killed
AN PICKUP TRUCK SLAMMED INTO THE REAR of a ladder truck that was positioned at an accident scene early Thursday morning, killing the car's driver immediately.
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Unique Tunnel Rescue Vehicle
The tunnel is covered with 83 CCTV cameras, 538 fire detectors, 39 fire hydrants, 38 SOS stations.
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Speeder Crashes Into Pumper Working a Fire
The structure was a real estate office and was fully involved when sheriff's deputies at the scene saw a car approaching at a high rate of speed.
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Firetruck Crash in New Jersey Injures 5 FF’s
A BURLINGTON COUNTY, NEW JERSEY, fire engine from the Lumberton Vol. Fire Company went off the road Wednesday night and wrecked, injuring five firefighters that were in the cab.
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Rescue Truck Rollover in Germany
A HEAVY RESCUE TRUCK FROM the volunteer fire department in Treskow, Germany, was responding to a fire call Monday morning when the 42-yr.-old driver inexplicably lost control of the truck and left the road.
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Fire Department Tanker Destroyed in Single-Vehicle Wreck
A POTTERSVILLE FIRE COMPANY TANKER was destroyed Sunday when the Somerset County, New Jersey, truck overturned while responding to a brush fire.
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Firetruck Collision in North Carolina
A GASTON COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, fire engine was involved in a collision shortly before noon Eastern today
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Black Ice Sends Truck Into Fire Engine
A SUDDEN PLUNGE IN TEMPERATURE caused roads to ice up in New England early Friday morning
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Firetruck Runs Over Bicyclist
A WINTER PARK, FLORIDA, FIRE ENGINE was drawn into a fatal accident Monday night when a bicyclist whose bike had no brakes tried to outrun the engine before it made a right turn.
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From the Engineer’s Desk
October Recalls
Not too many recalls to report this month, but a couple of significant ones. This first one made the front page of TMC’s "Fleet Adviser."
Daimler Trucks North America is recalling (NHTSA recall #11V-455) certain 2005 t…
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Regeneration Filters Still Fouling the Firetrucks
THE SUBJECT OF REGENERATION FILTERS for diesel engines continues to dominate firetruck maintenance divisions across the country.
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Firetruck Wrecks en route to Autobahn Pileup
One of the firetrucks responding to the scene, a tanker-pumper from Grunberg slid on the wet highway leading to the autobahn and rolled over injuring the three FF's on board,
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Penny Wise and Pound Foolish – A Commentary