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that’s not just a truck, it’s a quint with a (hopefully still working) pump that’ll likely do 1,000gpm out of the tip of that bucket’s monitor.
sad news though, you can’t pump and drive like in gta.
also it’s likely only got a few hundred gallons capacity. so you’ll get 20 seconds of water before you run dry. find a hydrant homie. :)
rear mounts are fun but make stoplights kind of a guessing game since the bucket hangs over the windshield.
but that thing looks mint. long as the outriggers work and the hydraulic and cables are good, you can totally use this to spy on the 7th floor hottie you noticed. she won’t at all notice the noise and diesel.
source: am truck company firefighter. we just recently sold our 1994 85’ Smeal for an upgraded 100’ Smeal (2025). I miss that old truck cause it was my first.
also it’s likely only got a few hundred gallons capacity. so you’ll get 20 seconds of water before you run dry. find a hydrant homie. :)
Or only hook up the trash line, that’ll get you… About a minute and a half or so
oh man. it does have a trash line. let’s go! :)
I tried I buy a classic pumper when I was 17, obviously wasn’t on the dept (vol) yet but my brother was.
My dad said no. Well, really he said “Get the fuck out of here with that, where would you even park it? Not in my driveway.”
Of course the only reason I could think of at the time was “I can fill up the pool?” which was neither convincing nor a smart response.
Maybe when I find my farm I’ll get one. Just for fun.
turn an old pumper into rolling bbq!
Thats what I was thinking!
How cool would it be to have a wetdown with a truck like that handling BBQ?
Firefighters usually take very good care of their vehicles and equipment so “like new!” could be more realistic than for your average 1991 vehicle. Start a service getting cats, kites, balls out of trees and it will pay for itself!
Plan to spend $50-$100 an hour for fuel if you want to move it.
Resto-mod, upgrade the drive train to electric, can’t be heavier than the electric hummers
Little Billy is going to learn about debt restructuring!
$30K? That’s a steal. I mean, that can’t be right, can it? These things are like $400K new.
our new truck here in new england was $1,600,000. and it’s not that different or specialized. there is a whole obnoxious market manipulation happening in this industry in the last ten years or so. :(
It does seem a bit messed up. I’m in a small rural volunteer fire department. We recently had an opportunity to apply for a grant and were brainstorming useful additions - we considered getting some jaws of life as we’re quite remote and we figured it would be good to be able to get someone out of a car. The base model, including tax and mandatory training, is CAD56K! Someone is making serious money there.
I mean this thing is in ontario, not sure where you are but maybe an extra engine for you guys?
It’s waaaaay too big for us - we are very rural. There’s maybe 70 houses in our whole coverage area. Most of our risk is forest fires.
What do I look like?? Linus??
BRB buying this for my friend’s 2-year-old because he’s cute as fuck and loves big red trucks
I know this feel. I don’t even like kids, but my niece? I’d buy her a fire truck if I could, too
My two nieces and that little shithead MJ and also Seb and that stupid adorable brother of his and Y’ALL STOP HAVING KIDS
If you’re like me and love the idea of driving and using these…
join your local volunteer fire department! I joined 3.5 years ago and do not regret it one bit. We’ve got a tower just like that, and I get to train with it pretty much any time I want. The other day I set it up and took it all 100’ straight up. It was epic to see my town from above like that.
Volunteer firefighters are in extreme demand. Most volunteer companies have critical member shortages and can barely staff their apparatus for most calls. As a volunteer you can do as little or as much as you like. It’s very easy to get in unless you just never show up or act dangerously. I thought there would be this super hard test or something but instead it was a background check and my doctor had to submit a note. We chatted for a few minutes and they handed me a pile of gear, showed me how to put it on, and then setup the app on my phone and told me training nights are Thursday 7pm. That night I was on the fire ground for a building fire helping with tasks outside on the street (you aren’t allowed anywhere dangerous without special training).
It’s been actually really cool. My company paid for me to take Firefighter 1 and then I found out there’s a whole skill tree of classes you can take afterwards. It’s like a game with branching paths. Can’t take Officer 2 without first finishing Officer 1, Instructor 1, Firefighter 2, Vehicle Rescue Ops, Hazmat Ops, and Firefighter 1. And so on. After the two ops classes are the technician levels. There’s 5 different rescue paths, like rope rescue or trench rescue. There’s whole branches for driving, operating pumps, operating towers, working as an engine crew (hoses, nozzles, foam / water), and working as a truck crew (ladders, power tools, axes, crowbars and halligans). Wildland is a whole different branch of skills. There’s a whole officer branch for learning command and a branch for instructing new firefighters.
If you’re near Philly you can come check out my station SFPA! You don’t have be close to be a member. Some of our members live pretty far away but sign up for an overnight shift and sleep in a private bunkroom. They’ll go on any calls that happen overnight, then head to work the next morning.
The perks are great: help your local community stay safe, free training, free gym membership, free bunkrooms and showers if you do shifts, a lounge for folks to relax in, and really access to a community of folks who believe in strong mutual aid. I didn’t plan for this, but a whole community of folks who are willing to get out of bed in the middle of the night to rescue a stranger are way more likely to help you move or let you borrow a wood chipper. We’ve suddenly found ourselves with access to a tool library worth six figures easily. The friends you make doing this are very different. They’re weird for sure, but the bond we’ve got is very different from every other group I’ve been a part of. I’ll remember these folks for the rest of my life. There’s nothing quite like going into a burning building and knowing your crew has your back. They can be assholes sometimes or cringe, but it really does hit different.
