Does the fire department have other emergency vehicles besides fire trucks? What are they?
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Marguerite
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They also have ambulance looking trucks. Fire and Rescue, they're called.
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The British fire service is called to many strange incidents form rescuing cats stuck up tree's to assisting getting people who are stuck in their houses free (occassionally by knocking walls down if the person is obese.). The main vehicle is a pump (tender carrying water), but they also have fire command vehicles which acts as a local nerve centre and station commanders have cars. All are red with blue lights. They have specialized vehicles for civil defence emergencies (The London Fire Brigade and Civil Defence Authority is their full title) such as nuclear leaks/ chemical spills and such.
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ERT (Emergency Response Team) they sometimes get to the scene and go into the blaze in case of life danger for those inside. Fire Marshall has his own buggy. In some rural towns, they have "Pumper Trucks" which have to be driven a tad more carefully as the water can shift quickly...
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Here are some pix of the vehicles used by the *perennially busy* Los Angeles FD: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=LAFD%20vehicles&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi *This bites big time because it means that our fire seasons are now 12-months long.
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