Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Anybody who thinks this is a joke: It is not. Most firefighters are retired military given weird fucking tools and a penchant to use them on anything. If they are legally allowed to smash your fucking windows, they will. They will use the Jaws of Life to tear your fucking car apart if they have to. Just imagine them like the police but the inability to kill people who don’t (or, ya know, do) listen to them, with the same overzealousness, hero complex, and everything, but more respectable because they actually do serve and protect.
I think it’s important to note that they don’t just like breaking the windows (they do), they also have to break the windows. They aren’t using a garden hose. A firehose is stiff as shit and basically rigid when pressurized. It cannot go over or around your car because it lacks the turning radius. Don’t park in front of fire hydrants!
UK fire engines aren’t built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save lives…
The bumpers on American fire engines are huge, and built to push cars right out of the way.
Similar to how they like to smash both windows and run hoses through cars parked in front of hydrants.
Anybody who thinks this is a joke: It is not. Most firefighters are retired military given weird fucking tools and a penchant to use them on anything. If they are legally allowed to smash your fucking windows, they will. They will use the Jaws of Life to tear your fucking car apart if they have to. Just imagine them like the police but the inability to kill people who don’t (or, ya know, do) listen to them, with the same overzealousness, hero complex, and everything, but more respectable because they actually do serve and protect.
The rest of them are pyros. But fun to hang out with.
Firefighters= bears. With furniture.
I think it’s important to note that they don’t just like breaking the windows (they do), they also have to break the windows. They aren’t using a garden hose. A firehose is stiff as shit and basically rigid when pressurized. It cannot go over or around your car because it lacks the turning radius. Don’t park in front of fire hydrants!
True.
The ones I’ve seen also have had a fair amount of water damage. Which might be accidental, but seems a bit passive aggressive at best.
UK fire engines aren’t built that way. They aim to get the maximum amount of resources into a fixed volume. Limited by nature of UK roads, particularly in older cities.
A push bar would make the engine longer, and so have more issues with nasty bends. Alternatively, the engine is shorter, but then you have to reduce something else.
If only they had several big burley blokes to hand, with laws that allow property damage to save lives…
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