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The Fire Service Circular [5] in 1984 showed 1,079 Green Goddess emergency pumps, 142 Land Rovers/Austin Gipsies, 369 trucks and 2,321 lightweight portable hose pumps held in reserve. Although they had been stored all over the UK, from 1992 the Green Goddess pumps were all relocated to the large TNT Truck Care depot in Marchington , Staffordshire.
The Green Goddess is the colloquial name for the RLHZ Self Propelled Pump manufactured by Bedford Vehicles, a fire engine used originally by the Auxiliary Fire Service (AFS), and latterly held in reserve by the Home Office until 2004, and available when required to deal with exceptional events, including being operated by the British Armed Forces during fire-fighters’ strikes (1977 and 2002).
Auxiliary fire departments were intended to aid regular fire services in case of nuclear attack when it was expected large numbers of fires would result from nuclear blasts overwhelming full-time services. Most still in existence run support vehicles such as lighting trucks, air supplies, rehab units, reserve firefighting apparatus, and the like.
In the post war period the pumps found a role in the cold war civil defence preparations, with the portable Godiva pump units being carried in vehicles called "The Green Goddess". These were pump vehicles extensively used by the auxiliary fire service during the cold war and called upon to relieve the firemen's strikes in the 1970s and 1980s.
The Oshkosh P-19R is an Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) vehicle and it was selected by the United States Marine Corps in 2013. [3] The first delivery occurred in June 2017, Initial Operating Capability (IOC) followed in February 2018, and in service the P-19R serves as a first-response vehicle in aircraft fire emergencies at military bases and expeditionary airfields.
Stryker. Stryker 4,466 . M1126 infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) M1126 Stryker (IAV) has two variants, he infantry carrier vehicle (ICV) and the mobile gun system (MGS).; The (ICV) variant has eight additional configurations: mortar carrier (MC), reconnaissance vehicle (RV), commanders vehicle (CV), fire support vehicle (FSV), medical evacuation vehicle (MEV), engineer squad vehicle (ESV), anti ...
In 1950, the Auxiliary Fire Service Unit was created to establish the Hong Kong Auxiliary Fire Brigade to provide additional manpower to regular fire brigade members under the Essential Services (Auxiliary Fire Service) Corps Regulations. In 1953, all Medical Corps vehicles and crew were transferred to the Fire Service.
Fire service vehicle manufacturers (20 P) Fireboats (1 C, 4 P) Pages in category "Fire service vehicles" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total.