SIA Flashback – All Fired Up

A fire truck is a fire truck, right? Except when it’s a triple, or a quad, or in active versus reserve duty. Dig below the surface of red paint and wailing sirens, as Donald Wood did for his article on fire engines in SIA #62, April 1981, and you’ll find there’s almost as many different configurations of fire engine as there are different chassis that supported fire equipment.