A fire engine or fire truck (also spelled firetruck) is a vehicle, usually a specially designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus...
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The FIRE (for "Fully Integrated Robotised Engine") is a series of automobile engines from Fiat Powertrain Technologies, built in FCA's Termoli, Betim and...
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A fire engine is a road vehicle designed for firefighting. Fire engine may also refer to: The Fire Engines, a Scottish post-punk group Fully Integrated...
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engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is sometimes referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or Newcomen engine. The engine was...
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Fire engine red, also known as fire truck red in North America, is an informal name for an bright red commonly used on emergency vehicles in many countries...
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A wildland fire engine or brush truck is a fire engine specifically designed to assist in fighting wildfires by transporting firefighters to the scene...
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The Fire Engines were a post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland. The Fire Engines were an influence on many bands that followed, including Franz Ferdinand...
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Emergency! (section Antique Dennis fire engine)
Los Angeles County Fire Museum. Set at the fictional Fire Station 51 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, where one fire engine and the paramedic...
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Thomas & Friends (redirect from Angus the Fire Engine)
Mattel in 2016. An American 2D animated reboot, Thomas & Friends: All Engines Go, premiered on 13 September 2021 on Cartoon Network's preschool block...
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Finley the Fire Engine is an American-British animated children's television series produced by Balley Beg Animation Studios in Douglas, Isle of Man....
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A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses...
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Fire Department has its origins in the year 1871. In September of that year, George M. Fall, the County Clerk for Los Angeles County organized Engine...
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fire engine is a fire engine that is powered by an electric motor—essentially, an electric vehicle designed and used for firefighting. Electric fire engines...
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January 2025 Southern California wildfires (redirect from Hurst Fire)
man and woman were arrested for trespassing in the Palisades Fire zone in a fire engine purchased at auction in Oregon and for posing as firefighters...
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Engine 51 is known for its time in the 1970s TV show Emergency!. Engine 51 is actually two very different fire engines. Both Engines 51 sit in the Los...
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Adam Hills (redirect from Go you big red fire engine)
at the Edinburgh Fringe. The title of his 2001 show, "Go You Big Red Fire Engine", was coined during a 1999 performance in Melbourne. Hills asked an audience...
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History of firefighting (redirect from The Edinburgh Fire Engine Establishment)
a print showing Lofting's fire engine at work in London, the engine being pumped by a team of men. In the print three fire plaques of early insurance...
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FirePower series (with displacements from 241 cu in (3.9 L) to 392 cu in (6.4 L)) from 1951 to 1958; a famed 426 cu in (7.0 L) race and street engine...
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Manual Fire Engine, designed and built by Shand Mason Company of London from 1869 to 1869. It is also known as Shand Mason 7 inch Manual Fire Engine (1869)...
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Firefighting apparatus (redirect from Fire appliance)
first fire pump circa the 2nd century B.C., and an example of a force-pump possibly used for a fire-engine is mentioned by Heron of Alexandria. The fire pump...
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A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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The firing order of an internal combustion engine is the sequence of ignition for the cylinders. In a spark ignition (e.g. gasoline/petrol) engine, the...
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location of the attached water main). This user can attach this hose to a fire engine, which can use a powerful pump to boost the water pressure and possibly...
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A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and...
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the flywheel end. The firing order is 1-6-5-4-3-2. The engine was produced at the Flint North plant in Flint, Michigan, with engine blocks and cylinder...
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fire engine in its original form was merely a water pump, with the engine being transported to the fire by horses. In modern usage, the term engine typically...
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been adopted as the color of fire engines in parts of the United States and elsewhere. The use of chartreuse fire engines began when New York ophthalmologist...
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store. In the 1840s, he worked with the Howard (Red Rover) Volunteer Fire Engine Company #34, on Hudson and Christopher Streets, and started the Washington...
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Charlisle was appointed the city's first fire chief who began motorizing fire brigade, and the first motorized fire engine was purchased in 1908 from the Seagrave...
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The Fire Engine That Disappeared (Brandbilen som försvann) is a mystery novel by Swedish writers Sjöwall and Wahlöö, published in 1969. It is the fifth...
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