Fire Engines Photos

These monster aerials are impressive and very expensive.

But they are still a lot cheaper than enforcing meaningful fire and building codes in hi-rise buildings, which makes them so popular in third World cites in emerging economies like China.

Unfortunately, even a fleet of several of these behemoths can't substitute for shoddy construction and absence of fire protection in these structures - hence the large numbers of (little-publicized) disastrous tower fires with multiple casualties in many of these countries...

Added by Rob Johnson on 22 October 2017.

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