What do these fire trucks do?

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Just curious really, but what do these fire trucks carry/what are they used for etc?? are they “NBC” sort of fire trucks?

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I think they are hook loaders bought for chemical incidents bombs etc where they can bring incident control rooms,contaminations showers etc etc

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i think they are for big incidents I think I remember some of our Shropshire ones were sent up to help when Sheffield and Yorkshire had those bad floods a couple of years ago

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They are Incident Support Units more info on them can be found here romar.org.uk/page97.html

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We used to have a lot of demountable pods, with 3 tractor units, there was a publicity pod, a chemical incident pod, command centre pod, decontamination pod, utility pod (for extra tools and equipment not on the fire engines), incident support pod (canteen wagon!) victim support pod and a couple of others that i forget now. not all counties have all the pods, they tend to lend and borrow as necessary. worst thing about the incident support unit was they always seemed to have only corned beef sandwiches whenever i was out on a major shout! but it was a good skive to be assigned to work on it!

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Phase 2 involved the provision of 238 prime movers to carry a range of demountable units. Of these 162 have been allocated to fire & rescue services, 7 have been sold to Scotland, 11 to Northern Ireland and one to Staffordshire Fire & Rescue Service. The remaining 57 appear to be surplus to requirements and plans are in hand to distribute them to brigades in England.

I do like this bit, our faithful government shows how inept they were when doing this, 57 trucks surplus to requirements!

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truckerjon is spot on although not many are actually assigned to an individual Brigade. Most don’t have badges or crests on them and can be sent anywhere where theres a major incident.

btw as I understand, they were supplied at cost price from MAN so it wasn’t a bad deal :sunglasses:

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i was led to believe one of those in Nuneaton grossed out at 27 tonne oops

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Berkshire seem to have at least one in Reading and maybe another one at Bracknell which if you look in through the front doors of the station you can see it :wink: