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Oshkosh Airport Products Striker: A range of 4x4, 6x6 and 8x8 specialized Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting vehicles built by Oshkosh at the Pierce Manufacturing facilities Appleton, Wisconsin [7] Pierce Manufacturing: TAK-4 independent suspension system is an option on Pierce Arrow (F), Enforcer (F), Impel (F/R), Dash CF (F/R), Velocity (F/R ...
Sunnyvale Fire Department Rescue 42 Pierce Enforcer Charlottesville-Albemarle Rescue Squad's technical rescue vehicle A Mercedes-Benz Zetros for the German fire services. A rescue vehicle is a specialised vehicle designed to transport and provide the equipment necessary for technical rescue. [1]
It was decided that a single manual should be developed to assist firefighters in achieving certification, and thus the Essentials of Fire Fighting was born. Carroll Herring, director of the Louisiana Fireman Training Program (now known as the Louisiana State University Fire and Emergency Training Institute, is credited with recommending the ...
Pierce was founded in 1913 by Humphrey Pierce and his son Dudley as the Pierce Auto Body Works Inc., which concentrated on building custom truck bodies for the Ford Model T. The first production facility was designed in 1917 and enlarged in 1918 by architect Wallace W. DeLong. [ 2 ]
Morehead Fire Department, KY. 1979 Pierce-Hendrickson custom cab Engine 7 HME Mt. Kisco (NY) Fire/Rescue 15. HME, Incorporated (Hendrickson Mobile Equipment) is a custom fire engine manufacturer in Michigan. The company was founded in 1913 (112 years ago) () as the Hendrickson Motor Truck Company by Magnus Hendrickson. Hendrickson Motor Truck ...
It is 910 kilograms (2,000 lb) lighter so it is faster and more maneuverable. The new Striker was designed with extensive feedback from firefighters and fire chiefs. It has a 520 kilowatts (700 hp) Deutz TCD 16.0L V8 Diesel engine with over 2,700 newton-metres (2,000 lb⋅ft) of torque. This new edition has 8 square metres (84 sq ft) of glass ...
An American LaFrance tiller truck used by the Los Angeles Fire Department. In the United States, a tiller truck, also known as a tractor-drawn aerial (TDA [12]), tiller ladder, or hook-and-ladder truck, is a specialized turntable ladder mounted on a semi-trailer truck. Unlike a commercial semi, the trailer and tractor are permanently combined ...
Engine 60 became Engine 51 by putting magnets or stickers over the numbers 60 on the doors and the front. A sister, Engine 127, at the Station 127 in Carson, was used when they filmed off the lot, at the refinery, or at the old fire station. This engine was involved in a traffic accident and destroyed leaving engine 60 as the only original E51.