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Main. Finley (voiced by Chancellor Miller in the US) is a red male fire engine. He is good-willed and generous, lives in Fire Station No. 5, and loves nothing better than having fun with his highway pals. He sometimes sleeps with his teddy bear, Diesel. Dex (sometimes known as Dexter) (voiced by Richard Steven Horvitz) in the US) is a blue male ...
A fire engine or fire truck is a vehicle, usually a specially-designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus. The primary purposes of a fire engine include transporting firefighters and water to an incident as well as carrying equipment for firefighting operations in a fire drill. Some fire engines have specialized ...
Dennis Edward Smith (September 9, 1940 – January 21, 2022) was an American firefighter and author. He was the author of 16 books, the most notable of which is the memoir Report from Engine Co. 82, a chronicle of his career as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department in a South Bronx firehouse from the late 1960s and into the 1970s.
Dec. 13—MOSES LAKE — There's a tradition in the fire service when a new piece of apparatus is added to the fleet, and students at Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center followed that tradition ...
Fireman Sam. Fireman Sam ( Welsh: Sam Tân) is an animated children's television series about a fireman named Sam, his fellow firefighters, and other residents in the fictional Welsh rural village of Pontypandy (a portmanteau of two real towns, Pontypridd and Tonypandy ). It was broadcast for the first time in November 1987 on Welsh TV channel ...
Snuffy (voiced by Gina Ribisi in the TLC era and Sandy Fox in the PBS Kids era) is a small green propeller-driven monoplane who is a good friend of Jay Jay and Tracy. He is equipped for skywriting . In episode consistency (which depends on the order), one episode says that he has not flown further away from Tarrytown than Lightning Bug Lake ...
On April 1, 1853, the Cincinnati Fire Department became the first full-time paid career fire department in the United States, and the first in the world to use steam fire engines. [ 9 ] The first horse-drawn steam engine for fighting fires was invented in England in 1829, but it was not accepted in structural firefighting until 1860.
Wildland fire engine. A wildland fire engine or brush truck is a fire engine specifically designed to assist in fighting wildfires by transporting firefighters to the scene and providing them with access to the fire, along with water or other equipment. There are multiple types of wildfire apparatus which are used in different scenarios.