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The Rosenbauer Group is the world’s third largest manufacturers of fire-service vehicles and firefighting equipment, based in Leonding, Austria. Rosenbauer supplies the fire fighting sector in over 100 countries with a wide range of custom fire and rescue apparatus and services. It produces its extensive series of fire fighting vehicles and ...
A Volvo pump truck from South Australian Fire with red-and-yellow Battenburg markings. Battenburg markings or Battenberg markings [a] are a pattern of high-visibility markings developed in the United Kingdom in the 1990s and currently seen on many types of emergency service vehicles in the UK, Crown dependencies, British Overseas Territories and several other European countries including the ...
The Kronenburg B.V. company is a fire-service vehicles manufacturer, based in Wanroij, Netherlands. [1] The company was founded by the Kronenburg family in 1823. Kronenburg B.V. supplies thousands of fire trucks to many countries. Its trucks serve in military and civil airports, petrochemical industries and municipal fire brigades. old logo of ...
The fire pump was reinvented in Europe during the 16th century, reportedly used in Augsburg in 1518 and Nuremberg in 1657. A book of 1655 inventions mentions a steam engine (called a fire engine ) pump used to "raise a column of water 40 feet [12.2 m]", but there was no mention of whether it was portable.
Magirus fire engine in Germany. Magirus GmbH [1] is a truck manufacturer based in Ulm, Germany, founded by Conrad Dietrich Magirus (1824–1895). It was formerly known as Klöckner Humboldt Deutz AG, maker of the Deutz engines, so the brand commonly used was Magirus Deutz, and for a short time Klöckner. Most trucks from Magirus were also known ...
A MAN truck of the airport fire department at Paderborn-Lippstadt. Specialized vehicles are used by German airport fire departments. These include airport crash tenders. In German, they are called Flugfeldlöschfahrzeug (FLFs). These normally have pumps with a large pumping capacity of 10,000 litres/min and have large supplies of either powder ...
Shocking video showed the moment a speeding passenger train slammed into a Florida fire truck that drove past a warning gate onto the tracks, injuring 15 people, including three smoke eaters.
Uro rural firefighting truck in North Spain URO VAMTAC. URO M3-24.14 of the UME. Uro (Both Galician and Spanish for "aurochs") is a Spanish brand of all-wheel-drive and military trucks, based in Santiago de Compostela, Galicia. The Uro parent company, Urovesa, was started in 1981 by a group of ex-IPV employees. They quickly established ...