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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.
By 2:35 pm the truck was driving past the Los Alfaques campsite, after travelling 102 km (63 mi) from the ENPETROL refinery. [3] The time is known because the driver's watch –which was found still attached to his burnt wrist– had stopped at 2:36 pm. [ 3 ] The tightly packed campsite was crowded with nearly 1,000 visitors, many from Germany ...
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 .
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 ...
3D zone control: The strategy of 3D zone control intended to improve the safety of firefighters operating inside a burning structure.It attempts to safeguard the immediate locality of any space occupied by firefighters in resorting to various defensive actions that (a) confine the fire; (b) remove combustion products safely and effectively; or (c) mitigate dangers in the hot-gas layers.
A Land Rover Defender 90 off-roading A Unimog U1600 off-roading 4WDs at Fraser Island beach, Australia. Off-roading is the act of driving or riding in a vehicle on unpaved surfaces such as sand, dirt, gravel, riverbeds, mud, snow, rocks, or other natural terrain.
Fire service driving training often includes the use of different sounds depending on traffic conditions and maneuver being performed. For instance, on a clear road, approaching a junction, the "wail" setting may be used, which gives a long up and down variation, with an unbroken tone, whereas, in heavy slow traffic, a "yelp" setting may be ...
Early off-road vehicles, such as the U.S. Jeep Wagoneer and Ford Bronco, the British Range Rover, and the station wagon-bodied Japanese Toyota Land Cruiser, Nissan Patrol, and Suzuki Lj's series all had bodies similar to those of a station wagon, on a body comparable to that of a light truck, with four-wheel-drive drivetrains.