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A rescue crew responding to the Christmas Day flooding in a suburb of Melbourne misjudged the depth of flood waters and plowed straight in, nearly submerging their truck entirely. One firefighter has been "stood down" and the whole crew may end up suspended. More »
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After seeing a firetruck doing a burnout yesterday and a rare television repair van earlier today, we started thinking more about the world of commercial vehicles and how much fun they can be. More »
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This doesn't seem to be an active firetruck, so we salute this hoon for buying our six-year-old dream machine and then doing a burnout in it. More »
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Preparing the right vehicle for the zombie apocalypse often requires a lot of time, space and a forgiving family. This is where ApocaLEGO vehicles come in. If minifig zombies want brains, they're going to have to get through this crew. More »
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A moment on Google Street View showing a Dutch fire truck driving away after allegedly knocking down a little old lady on her bike hit the internet yesterday, today Google's completely erased the moment. Too bad we kept the pictures. More »
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A Google Street View car on assignment in the Netherlands captured what looks like a fire truck bowling over a little old lady and driving away. Luckily, the Googlers stopped to help. Hey guys... where's the fire? More »
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A water main break caused a massive water leak in a Los Angeles neighborhood, leading to a sinkhole that captured one of LA's much-needed fire trucks. Seriously, it's like a Roland Emmerich movie out there. [CNN] More »
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This fire truck pulled to the shoulder to let cars pass on a single-lane, mountain road when the ground gave way, causing it to roll down a hill, flattening a 1969 Firebird race car. More »
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Denver has the Mercedes-Benz Feuerwagen, but San Francisco can hold its head up high when it comes to German Emergency Vehicle bragging rights, with this 60s Opel Blitz that Akier photographed in the Sunset District. Make the jump to see the entire gallery and read Akier's description. More »
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We know all about Big Red; it's a monster-ized 1937 International fire truck that we first saw at the Woodward Dream Cruise. The beast weighs in at a whopping 30,000-pounds and measures 38-feet long; it's the world's heaviest and longest monster truck. But now it's just sold at the Palm Beach Barret-Jackson auction for— only $26,000. Now obviously this isn't a traditionally practical vehicle, but for sheer pounds of awesome-to-dollar value, we think this thing was a steal.
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If you've never seen the show, 12Oz. Mouse on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim runs a story line roughly based on intoxication, blowing things up and being as confusing as possible. Not that it makes sense, but we were impressed to see a firetruck with a possibly supercharged V6 in the front, jet engine in the back, skis for wheels and a ghetto blaster on the side in this episode. Your employer may feel differently than we do about a drunk peanut shaped fireman driving a jet powered fire truck into a baby carriage full of alcohol, while swearing, so this might be NSFW. We can't tell, we're confused. More »
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Lock up your arsonists. It's Big Red, possibly the world's longest (38') and heaviest (29,960 lbs) monster truck in the world, parked at the corner of 13 Mile and Woodward Avenue for this year's Woodward Dream Cruise. The sign also notes Red is the world's only fully functional monster fire truck, which could prove handy if a blaze ever erupts atop a double row of crushed cars. It's a late-30s vintage International Harvester D series, best known as the platform of the psychedelically painted school bus named "Furthur." That was the groovemobile in which Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters crisscrossed the US in 1964, dropping more acid in a year than the entire student body of UMass did in all of the 1980s. But you won't find Wavy Gravy crashed out in this ladder truck. It's the product of Monster Truck Rides USA and Liberty-1 Motorsports, which reports the massive rig will depart from New York City on September 11, 2007 for Los Angeles on a cross-country fundraising trip for children's charities [Big Red Monster Fire Truck] More »
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You got a mailbox on your bumper and... never mind. The idea of going to a distant land and bringing back some weird vehicle with which to rattle local minds has always had its appeal; for example, the guy in my town who drives around in a Pinzgauer (with Swiss military markings) probably has way more fun on his commute than the rest of us. So it's hard not to respect this Denver guy's ambitious plan to get a Mercedes fire truck from Germany and turn it into a rolling rent-a-partymobile for use at ski and snowboard events. He's got the truck in hand (transport from Germany alone cost close to 10 grand) and he's well on his way to rolling to the slopes in a J ger-Fueled Ragin' Feuerwehr Frenzywagen. Dude. – Murilee Martin More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=244352&view=rss&microfeed=true The video quality of this clip's a bit too sketchy for us to tell what just what brand or variant of Fiat 124-type vehicle these wacky Turkish firefighters are levitating via water pressure, but they do manage to raise it shockingly high in the air with their hoses. Which has us thinking, if we ever find ourselves caught in the midst of an Istanbul/Constantinople riot, we're bailing before these guys show up in their big, red Benzes. – Davey G. Johnson More »
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