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Fire truck is a class of municipal/utility machinery designed for fire extinguishing and rescue operations.
This class includes a wide range of wheeled machinery on the chassis of serial trucks or on special vehicle chassis, which are used to deliver the crew of fire-fighters, firefighting equipment, as well as fire extinguishing agents, to the scene of fire, to convey the firefighting equipment to the hearth of fire, to lift the specialists and the equipment at a predetermined height, to evacuate valuables and victims, to handle debris, etc.
Among the main types of fire trucks one can distinguish, for example, the following ones:
Fire-fighting tank-truck (the most common type, it is equipped with reservoirs for transportation of extinguishing agents, fire pump, means for mixture supply, crew compartment);
Fire pump-hose car (functionally similar to fire-fighting tank-truck, except that the tank itself is replaced by a large number of fire hoses);
First-aid fire-fighting vehicle (a universal vehicle for containment and extinguishing of fires in the initial stage);
Fire pumping station (intended for the withdrawal of water from open sources and its subsequent supply to the fire site);
Fire hose car (intended for transportation, mechanized construction and assembly of fire hoses on considerable distance from the pumping station to the site of fire extinguishing and rescue operations);
Emergency vehicle (designed for constructions and debris handling, and other rescue operations);
Fire ladder;
Fire articulated boom lift (aerial platform);
Fire command car, auto laboratory, communication and lighting vehicles, etc.
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