Why did this fire truck need such big tires? Because it was in Antarctica. In 1974, this fire truck serviced McMurdo Station. It's one of ten of the oddest fire trucks ever built, including one built from a Rolls Royce,...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/25/The-10-Strangest-Fire-Trucks-Ever-Built/
A fire started in an upstairs dishwasher at Medive... ...ed, they found a vet performing surgery on a dog. Firefighters battled the blaze and evacuated other animals, an...
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/01/09/Fire-Breaks-Out-During-Surgery/
Firefighters were battling a 30 hectare brush fire in Kew, nea... ..., also known as sewage.An RFS spokeswoman said 12 firefighters had been directly exposed to the "secondary treat... ...a further seven were in the general area."All 29 firefighters on the fireground and their...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/11/12/Sewage-Dropped-on-Fire-and-Firefighters/
A fire station in Lanzhou, Gansu province, China, was gutted by a fire recently, causing chagrin for the local fire department. It was first announced as a "training exercise," but later fire officials had to admit that...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/10/28/Fire-Station-Fire/
Firefighters are, of course, so frequently summoned by anxious...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/30/Firefighters-Rescue-Cow-Stuck-in-Tree/
These days any fire stations that actually have dalmatians just keep them around for the sake of appearances, but if you've ever wondered why they chose the spotted dogs in the first place, there's actually a good reason...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/08/29/Why-Are-Dalmatians-Linked-to-Firefighters/(YouTube link) Firefighters Ted Aubart and Ben Terhaar of Sedan, Minnesota he...
http://www.neatorama.com/2012/03/21/well-dressed-firefighters/
Firefighters in Bridgend, Wales, were called to a home in Pont... ...of, but eventually it must have realised how many firefighters were there trying to get it down and thought, Iâ€...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/06/15/hey-theres-a-sheep-on-your-house/
A family in Yuma, Arizona, called the Humane Socie... ...near. Erfert said the apartment's residents told firefighters that the dog was a stray and that it rushed into... ...nside and they couldn't get the dog to come out. Firefighters wore protective suits as they extracted the dog....
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/03/03/fire-department-removes-stray-dog-from-refrigerator/
Orville Douglas Denison thinks that telescopin... ...s Denison thinks that telescoping ladders used by firefighters are too slow for firefighters to use effectively. So he designed a system that... ...vely. So he designed a system that would lift up firefighters on somethin...
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/01/04/could-fire-truck-ladders-be-replaced-with-escalators/
