Incident Report

Subject:                Can Your Crew Survive a 'Roll Over' - Is Your Fire Truck Man Enough?                    

Date of Email reporting Incident:   Tue 23/09/2003 17:09

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Not something anyone wants to experience, however, is survivability one of your considerations when specifying your next fire truck?  Thanks to Marty Hawkes for passing on these pictures.

We are going through a state of emergency where there are a minimum of 750 forest fires going on in British Columbia. All departments have been sent to tackle these fires, one of them being Langford Fire Department. They sent 5 fire-fighters and their first line pumper out to Kelowna to help. They were on a narrow dirt road, the driver decided to pull over to let traffic pass and the road gave way, resulting them to roll 5 times.