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[Dosedmonkey]

Wish we had them on board ships to fight fires!

[Dosedmonkey]

Oh this is a beast, British brigades are starting to buy it not just for rural, but also urban, due to increased flooding.



MAN TGM 13.280BL 4x4

[Forensics]

My area has just got 16 new engines:


Two more (not from my area)


Also this one:

[hunter42]

Is that a Mercedes Unimog? They're cool saw quite a number in the highlands.

[martijntjuh]

i guess i dont have to tell what the truck does?^^
my new favorite

it replaced thisone:

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[Dosedmonkey]

From the photos of the Merc Unimog, it looks like they can submerge upto the roof, as it has black ir intake, and silver exhaust above roof level! Mental!

I think we have atleast one of these in Dorset now.

http://news.bbc.co.u...set/8024165.stm

[jab16]

These are my boys, Know a guy that works with them amazing stuff and helicopter love the inside, it is a flight nurse's dream in it. its an EC-145

[bsbllthirteen]

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Name: 62-45
Type: Stuphen Deluge

Rombout fire departments tower ladder

[BASTIAN]

Not really my favorite, but a pink fraction? OMG

[Tian318]

This is always been my favorite(since i was like 8years old)

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Specs:
Code name: 7431 "Taz"(the loony toon character)
Base: Royal Air Force base: Woensdrecht airfield
Role: Multi purpose truck
Brand: DAF FFV75.270 ATI 4x4
Chassis: Kronenburg/Rosenbauer
Type: Hedel TS6LD3400HD400T1500
Tank holding: 1500liters
Crew: 6
Specialty: Multi task
Out fitted with:
First aid, Heat sensor, camera Fuel/Air pressure measurement, Explosive device handling material, Small live boat, hydrolysis ladder packing, 3 suction pipes(3meters), 1 suction filter head(for the suction pipes), 1 3 piece ladder, Emergency stretcher Crowbars, flashlights, eye washing station, 5 pressurized breathing devices, 2 combat knifes, 6 bottles of air, chemical equipment(boots, coveralls, helmets, hand gloves), Cutter(sheers), Chainsaw, Toolbox cutter + disks, pylons, powder extinguishers(BC 6kg)(D 12kg) power supply(4300KW/H), flares, diving equipment(and tons of other supporting stuff to secure/rescue/fight fire).

Truck armament's :
Engine: DAF RS200L 8,66Liter 6 cylinders Turbo Diesel with inter cooler good for: 270 Brake Horse Power

Pumping unit:
capacity: 3000l/min at 10bar, pumping up a massive amount of 24.000liter to get 40bar.
(This truck will drain a lake when an airplane is on fire(that is way they are so rare in the dutch(only some airbases have lakes)
Power source: Main engine
Hose connections: 4x 1,5", 2x suction tube, 3x transportation hoses.

Hoses:
10 x 2,5" transport hoses
4 x 1,5" Attack hoses(40bar)

This baby will put out an burning F-16(fully loaded with bombs and fuel)under 2minutes, At the same time rescue the pilot(from land/sea or even plane), Securing the area, Brush patrols, Helping out with civil duties as well(for the district, Woendrecht/Bergen op zoom)
Top speed: 155KM/H
In service since 1996(making it one of the oldest still active fire truck in the dutch airforce)
Will continue service until the late 2020's

That is why this is my favorite(for over 14years now)


EDIT:

In the Netherlands we use similair vehicles these days but then yellow. Even the air force uses them but they are cool and very very big to see live.

No we don't.
The picture you see is the Rossenbauwer 6x6
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The dutch(civil, airforce and navy) use the E-one HPR Titan(8x8)
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26 are in civil use(on airports around the netherlands)
12 are in the airforce(3Woensdrecht, 3 Leeuwwarden, 3 Gilze Rijen, 3 Eindhoven)
3 are in the navy(3 in Den helder)

[FDNY Rescue 1]

This has to be My favorite Australian Apparatus.



Known as: USAR 1
Chassis Make & Model: Mercedes Benz Actros 2653 (6x4)
Commissioned: 2004 (1 Vehicle)
Crew Capacity: 2
Gross Operating Mass: 20.5 tonne
Dimensions: 17.8m (L), 3.8m (H), 2.5m (W)
Wheelbase: 3.98m

Trailer Equipment: 3 x 50kVa generators, seismic listening device, search cameras, communication equipment, hydraulic jackhammers, halogen baloon lights, timber shoring, Suzuki 450 Quad bike

[jab16]

thats a pretty cool rig

[Seluryar]

love this one, but i have only seen it once

[rickyrescue]

like this unit. LACoFD hazmat for battalions 6 & 22


Everyone loves the sight of these during a huge brush fire

[njboy13]

This one is cool. The New Jersey State Police helicopters, used for medevac and general policing/homeland security from the air.

[Rafael]

Here are my favorite fire equipment, all used by the fire department of Sao Paulo.

Here is the fire station in my town.


Ford F-4000 ambulance popularly known as Unidade de Resgate (Rescue Unit).

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[X-RayTangoAlpha]

I love the verhicles of the Dutch City Scheveningen. I live in Scheveningen. They have 4 verhicles, and there in a regio, named regio Haaglanden. But it mostly calld: Regio 15.

This is my favorite of Scheveningen: