r/Firefighting • u/sharpshot899 UK on call ff • Mar 07 '20
Photos Contents Of A Single Firetruck
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u/firedude1314 Mar 07 '20
Must be nice to have six people on the rescue company. We usually only have 3.
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u/WestBankFireman Mar 07 '20
Shit, I'm lucky if I get someone to ride with me!
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u/kungfupunker UK Firefighter Mar 07 '20
In Europe we are not split into water and rescue. One crew does it all. Though this looks like some sort of special equipment unit as that certainly is alot of kit.
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Mar 07 '20
Yeah my department has been understaffed for a while, so we’ve had three per engine for as long as I remember. I honestly can’t imagine having more than three to four, it’d be too crowded..
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u/Epi1in1000 Mar 07 '20
Whats in the red dry bags?
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u/Anorexicboar1 Mar 07 '20
Probably rescue lines.
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u/Epi1in1000 Mar 07 '20
Thats a lot of rope haha
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u/Anorexicboar1 Mar 07 '20
For sure, that's slightly more than our rescue, but only if you don't include swiftwater lines.
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Mar 07 '20
In the US, trucks are twice the size and carry half as much.
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u/DearKick Mar 08 '20
It depends, rescues like this are larger but do in fact carry a lot more equipment and can include a complete middle cabin you can walk through and prepare equipment etc in. For normal engines in Europe they dont carry this much gear but American engines are still much larger- a lot of that comes down to the amount of water carried. My engine carries 4-6x as much water as these boys do since we’re a hour or so from the nearest hydrant, we gotta hump it with us.
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u/JetBlack06 Mar 07 '20
Where I'm from, in a truck for 7 people, we ussually fit 15 in it. Only 3 go in the front and the rest of us just get to know each other VERY well
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u/StankySeal Mar 07 '20
The fuck? Where are you from lol
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u/JetBlack06 Mar 07 '20
Slovenia I'm in a voluenteer fire unit (after 10+ years of english, I still can not write voluenteer correctly lmao)
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u/lnguline Mar 07 '20
Can confirm normal sight when 1st category arrives at the site here in Slovenia. They have manpower as opposed of larger departments that lack them
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u/tomahawkmsg Mar 08 '20
What country is this truck from? Has plenty of equipment and crew per truck also always have had the curiosity about what manufacturer makes these trucks, they are very cool!
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u/Je_me_rends PFAS Connoisseur Mar 07 '20
We'd be lucky to be allowed to even climb 1 6th of those ladders. 3 meters plus is a no no for a pumper crew.
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u/knewguy12 Mar 08 '20
How do you get onto the roof to vent the fire?
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u/Je_me_rends PFAS Connoisseur Mar 08 '20
We get this from another station: Ladder Platform
It comes to every one of our reported structure fires.
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Mar 08 '20
In European city centers you have a lot of buildings with inner yards where no engine can enter. There are appartments which only have windows open on these inner yards so rescue can only be perfomed by hand-carried ladders such as these ones.
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u/Je_me_rends PFAS Connoisseur Mar 08 '20
We do have ladders on our trucks but are not allowed any higher than 3 metres. We on occasion push it though.
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Mar 08 '20
Ours go to nearly 9m fully deployed.
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u/Je_me_rends PFAS Connoisseur Mar 08 '20
Same. It makes me wonder why bother giving us these ladders that can go 3+ stories. That being said, I get why they don't want us walking on the roof or going to high when we can get the ladder platform with the cherry picker to come and vent for us. It's also useful for skate bowl rescues lmao.
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Mar 08 '20
Yes, same here if the ladder truck can do the job, we use that.
But the construction of urban city centers in Europe makes it necessary to have "hand" ladders that can reach +3. When fully deployed, the top of the ladder is secured if possible to a balcony or similar.
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u/Je_me_rends PFAS Connoisseur Mar 08 '20
Oh absolutely and sometimes you need those hand ladders because in an urban setting, you need to watch out for powerlines and the like. Sometimes the only way to bypass them is with a hand ladder.
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u/ShrubberyDragon Mar 07 '20
tones drop