stephen emery

bet it gets there quick , only a 4 door so no blo@dy good when its on the seen.
Was a red 4 door decked out in all lincoln fire services logos, blue light.think it was a n reg
at the top end of netalham road station.
never heard or seen this before ,
anyone else,
not a lot of good i would have thought
steve

AndiThompson

Its one of those daft american ideas, fire chief guy turns up in a car and discovers he cant do anything but watch seen one in Manchester once IIRC, getting slowly more popular..

Silent Monkey

Not such a daft idea, one of the responsibilties of the first appliance to reach an incident is to assess the need for additional or specialist equipment. Say it takes a fire engine 6 minutes to reach an incident and a car 3 minutes from the station, if additional tenders are needed they can be on the way 3 minutes quicker if a fast response vehicle is first on the scene rather than a normal appliance. If it's one of the many hoax calls the appliances can be stood down before they arrive and are then available for any other incident. I believe some brigades have experimented with bikes but "fast" cars seem to be preferable.

boomer

You are all far too young!!!

It is a Thunderbird One!!!!!

mb

Col Stone

Hi I'm with Surrey Fire & Rescue and wish we had scoobs !
Mind you the Chief and dep have Volvo V70R awd's so not bad even if they never go to shouts [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img]
Col