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A fire engine or fire truck (also spelled firetruck) is a vehicle, usually a specially-designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus. The primary purposes of a fire engine include transporting firefighters and water to an incident as well as carrying equipment for firefighting operations in a fire drill .
The fire burned for 30 hours, involved over 250 firefighters, the Ohio National Guard and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and caused significant environmental damage. The fire was controlled and finally extinguished in part by covering it with dirt. In the intervening years the EPA has performed a massive clean up effort on the site.
The fire burned for fifty-three hours and was estimated to have reached a temperature of 1,000 °C (1,830 °F), mainly because of the margarine load in the trailer, equivalent to a 23,000-litre (5,100 imp gal; 6,100 US gal) oil tanker. The fire spread to other cargo vehicles nearby that also carried combustible loads.
This photo shows the damage caused to a Chesterfield Fire ladder truck when it was hit by a speeding pickup truck Saturday, March 30, 2024, on Interstate 95 south in Chesterfield County.
Fire engine, fire truck, or fire lorry A road vehicle (usually a truck) that functions as a firefighting apparatus. Flagger or flagman. See traffic guard. Freeway. See controlled-access highway. Frontage road, access road, service road, or parallel road A local road running parallel to a higher-speed, limited-access road.
Fire Call is the response that authorises lights and sirens, and disobeying road laws within reason. This is the response for most calls, including bushfires and road crashes. Normal Road is the second response that requires the appliance to follow road regulations and not use emergency lights and siren.
Emergency responders along an icy Interstate 94 in Comstock Township, Michigan, ran for their lives Thursday morning when a box truck driver lost control, skidded along the slippery highway and ...
(Photo credit: Plainfield Fire Territory/Facebook) Two people were rescued from a precarious situation after their pickup truck skidded off an icy road and plunged into a retention pond in Indiana ...