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Great vehicle, why does it only carry 2 people? Should be carrying at least 3 or 4 people for to operate all that equipment. If the answer is those other people are coming on another vehicle, than that is a waste of money. To have to buy 2 vehicles to just to get the correct number of people there is a waste of money. Aside from that I think this vehicle is well thought out (except for the lack of people space) and carries more than enough equipment for what it needs to do. Great picture.

Added by Todd on 13 November 2008.

Probably have a support pump for manning level

Added by Barrie Green on 13 November 2008.

Usually typical vehicle (such as this Rescue Tender) will be activated if needed at the incident site. So the problem of personnel operating the equipment in the lockers is no longer a problem. Or in some cases there are brigades which have purchased this type of vehicles to support other vehicles. This thing happens in places like Hong Kong, Brunei, Singapore etc.

Added by Bomba995 on 14 November 2008.

I can't find any mention of this rescue vehicle only
being manned by 2 rider's in the above description.


Added by Pete Matten on 14 November 2008.

That looks a sensible set up, Rosenbauer seem to be building some very capable appliances these days.
Nice picture too.

Added by John Stott on 14 November 2008.

Todd,

You'll note there is no dedicated firefighting equipment carried on this appliance, only rescue gear, you need a standard fire appliance - one with a pump and water at an RTA - to firefight or simply swill away afterwards, this is why a minimum of two appliances are sent to RTA's of course you could put a full crewcab, water tank and pump/ladders on this vehicle and then you'd have nowhere to stow all this gear, so practically two different vehicles are needed for dealing with an RTA - hope this explains.

Added by Rick Loudon on 14 November 2008.

Hi Tod! In Germany, they has 3 sizes of rescuevehicles. The crew of them is 3, there have been
rescuevehicles with crew of 6. The smallest of them is built on Unimog, size 2 & 3 on Mercedes-Benz.

Added by Anders Fallström on 14 September 2014.

These dedicated heavy rescue trucks are now tending to be very slowly phased out in many countries, as rescue pumpers become more popular.

Although not equipped with a crane, many rescue pumpers do carry most of the equipment needed at road accidents, unless heavy commercial vehicles are involved.

In addition, in rural areas the response time for dedicated rescue units can be lengthy, as they are relatively few and far between. But rescue pumpers can be positioned at virtually any station, improving response times to road accidents.

This trend is most noticeably accelerating in France.

Added by Rob Johnson on 15 April 2017.

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