Laws differ from county to county and state to state. In Pennsylvania for example blue lights are reserved for volunteer firefighters, while in Florida blue is for local police. Few states run blues on FD, but they are out there. Here's another weird one for you to wrap your mind around; Missouri is the only state that allows tow trucks to run red/blue lights and sirens.
@@FurryWrecker911 - WOW that is weird - Here in New Hampshire Tow Trucks have either Amber/Yellow or Orange/Yellow Light's, but no sirens, same thing goes for all city and state construction and maintenance vehicle's.
There's not a lot of design to this truck. It's a standard F450 single cab chassis with a 300 gallon tank, small pump and a hose reel. Throw on some emergency lights, etc and it's not exactly an overly technical design.
70% of the FD in this country are Volunteer, they rely on donations and maybe a fire fee assessment that our county just got and the dept. was started in '71. People think we have all the money in the world, even on Boot drives begging for loose change, people tell us we're made of money. Just a hint Bunker gear a full set last ten years on just time not use...COST $2000.00 boots, pants, coat and thermal liner, Hard hat is $300.00.... SCBA (airpack) $2000.00 all has to be NFPA approved............been a volly for ten years since I turned 44.
Volunteer fire departments don't have that kind of funding for new trucks like city ran fire department with more funding the volunteer fire department in my area has trucks that where donated to them in 1995.
The only Peoblem with that new Brush Truck is FIX OR REPAIR DAILY, OTHERWISE KNOWN AS FORD !!!!! Would have been much better on a Dodge, or Chevy !!!!!
+Blue yeah in a brush fire they dont stop and spray they follow the fire closely with a spray bar in front and have a guy spray from the jump seat while perpendicular
Why? this has been done for years in various departments...you can see a hell of allot more out of the cab...of coarse it's not designed to ride on in general, it is for on scene application.
Look at Forest service and other major agencies never use crew sitting out side of the cab. Look at modern structure apparatus, no one is riding out side, being out side exposes crews to dangerous elements.
Scott Foster they don't ride to scene outside of cab. When they arrive at the grass/brush fire, one member gets out and would get on the seat while the driver goes parallel to the fire. Not stupid, every department that has a brush truck does so
