Fire Engines Photos

REnault still dominates the scene in France, but even Paris is now buying Mercedes, and both MAN and Scania fire trucks are beginning to show up in French fleets. An echo of "adieu Dennis"?

Added by Rob Johnson on 27 January 2011.

Paris has now Scania Skylifts.
Never seen Dennis in France. Are there some?
I know Frankfurt FD in Germany tried Dennis but gave-up, because spare-parts and maintenance issues
cheers
JP

Added by Jacques PETER on 29 January 2011.

See also picture 29324.

Added by Lambert Arnaud on 03 September 2011.

Hi Jacques Peter!The BF Frankurt still owns a Dennis Rapier! It is a prototype from December 2000.Tested at Firestation 2 (Gallus).1200 litres water, 80 litres foam, Godiva WT 3010 pump(FPD 10-3000)3000 litres@10 bar lowpressure, 300 litres@40 bar highpressure, foampump MSR FD 500/0, lightmast with 2 1000 watt lights, frontwinch!It is now used for training and Fire security watches.I found this information on the feuerwehr-frankfurt.de website.

Anders F. Sweden.

Added by Anders Fallström on 17 August 2014.

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