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Permalink Reply by Tony P on December 11, 2008 at 6:23am

I thought you might Billy - which is why I suggested the Rockies as a boundary... It sounds like the people with the loudest voices in NIMS/NFPA might have been west coast wildfire people?

I think we generally have nation-wide terms for most vehicles:
Pumpers (obvious, I think even most North Americans understand that one?)
Aerials - Platforms, Telebooms, whatever, we don't use them that much anyway.
Tankers - Heavy, Medium, Light, Ultra Light - and a few others. But here a 'Tanker' is usually a 4WD firefighting vehicle, not a bulk water carrier. When we want bulk carriers (in my State) we hire them...
Pumper/Tankers - a Tanker with a bigger capacity pump.
Rescues
Quite a few misc. vehicle types - specialist vehicles usually.
Oh, and here in Victoria we have one vehicle with a stupid name. A "Slip-On". Our forestry people have small 4WD vehicles that have removable water tank/pump arrangements that they 'slip on' for the fire season. Stupid, the tanks/pumps on ours stay there all year round. I think most of the rest of the country call them 'Ultra Light Tankers". As we should.

When we want water from the sky we just ask for 'air support' and leave it for the experts to send us what they can. Not rain, that';s been a very scarce commodity for some years now...

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Permalink Reply by CW on December 12, 2008 at 10:38am

Hey Try to Keep My Word & Follow through the Unique Characteristic's of a Quint # 5 was not the attack lines (like I thought) but actually Ground Ladders, along wth #1 Ariel Ladde. Also a "True" Quint must have at least a 750gpm pump on it.

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Permalink Reply by Tim Stearns on December 30, 2008 at 2:08pm

and yes there is a difference!!!!!!!!!

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Permalink Reply by John on December 31, 2008 at 2:04pm

not sure if anyone else got these so here ya go.

Brush (brush fire's), Utility (transport equitment, people, etc...), Command (command at all fire calls), Antique ( the oldy), and Gator (love it)

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Permalink Reply by LVVFD622 on December 31, 2008 at 3:47pm

Western New York Cattaraugus County Area we call them
Engine
Mini
Tanker
Ladder or Tower
Rescue (Big) or Utility "UT" (Small Rescue)
Ambulance
Usually our unit numbers don't include "Engine", "Rescue" so on and so forth, it's more like Dept. name with number, and number classifies a certain type of apparatus. Except for the southeast corner of the county. They still use the Engine ## with no Dept. name.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on December 31, 2008 at 4:28pm

For most of the West Coast and others who have adopted the FIRESCOPE California Standards, the different types of apparatus / vehicles are defined in the Field Operations Guide ICS 420-1 Incident Command System Publication

Primary Mobile Suppression Resources / ICS 420-1 / Minimum Standards

RESOURCE / RADIO CALL

Engine Company / Engine, Telesquirt
Truck Company / Truck
Water Tender / Tender
Brush Patrol / Patrol
Medical Non-Transport / Rescue, Squad, Medic Engine
Medical Transport / Ambulance, RA (Rescue Ambulance - LAFD), Medic
Bulldozer / Dozer
Bulldozer Tender / Dozer Tender
Handcrew / Crew #

Fire Boat / Boat
Foam Tender / Foam
Air Tanker / Tanker
Helicopters / Copters
Helitanker / Helitanker
Helicopter Tender / Helitender
Helitack Crew / Helitack
Aircraft Rescue Firefighting (ARFF) / ARFF

Breathing Apparatus Support / Breathing Support / Air Lighting
Crew Transport / Crew Transport
Field Mobile Mechanic / Repair
Food Dispenser Unit / Food Dispenser
Mobile Kitchen Unit / Mobile Kitchen
Fuel Tender / Fuel Tender
Heavy Equipment Transport / Transport
Illumination Unit / Light, Air Lighting Breathing Support
Mobile Communications / Comm
Refrigeration Unit / Refer
Utility Transport / Utility

and then again, there are other "things" out there... we call this our Terra-Torch...

There are also really cool hazmat rigs out there such as LACOFD's hazmat rig...

Have a great 2009!

TCSS,
Mike

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Permalink Reply by Jacob on December 31, 2008 at 5:15pm

utility, Chief 1, Haz MAt Unit, HEavy Rescue, Brush,Foam, Water Rescue

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Permalink Reply by Jason Koontz on February 19, 2009 at 12:24pm

brush truck is usually a structural firemans way of referring to a type 5 or type 6 fire engine, a mini-pumper, or any engine mounted on a smaller chassis. Usually these units are reserved for wildland fire duty, as the larger engines, such as those used for structure fires, don't have the ability or ground clearance to travel where they need to in order to fight wildland fires.

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Permalink Reply by John on February 20, 2009 at 3:30pm

Ours is a Ford F350 with a tank and pump mounted on the back with booster hose ona reel, and some tools as well

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Permalink Reply by RESCUE67SQUAD on February 22, 2009 at 6:17pm

yea squirt pipeline tower snorkel god theres alot

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Permalink Reply by Jay Nicholson on February 22, 2009 at 6:52pm

Engine

Truck: any aerial apparatus. Could be a tiller, quint, snorkle, rear-mount, etc. The only exception I've seen is some tele-sqirts are engines in some cities and trucks in others.

B-x: Battalion Chief

WT: water tender

Brush: Out here a type-3 engine

Rescue: not an ambulance. Specialized apparatus for technical rescues. Also, the airports now call their units 'rescue' instead of crash.

Medic: an ambulance most often ALS.

Light & Air: responds for lighting and replenishment of air bottles.

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Permalink Reply by Fireyladd - Retired Chief Sharp on February 22, 2009 at 7:09pm

Cannon, WOW! just about covers the world. :)

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