Awesome Fire Trucks

This complex stainless steel model from Piececool lets you build a detailed miniature fire truck, complete with a rotating ladder. The 354-piece kit takes time and patience, and you’ll want a good set of precision tools to snap and bend its flat-packed parts. The finished model measures about 7″ long and just under 5″ tall.

…is not the Big Wind because it isn’t a truck. This big boy is a T-34 tank that had its gun turret replaced with a contraption made of two MiG-21 fighter plane engines and six water nozzles. Its blasts of air and water helped put out the 1991 oil well fires in Kuwait, achieving in seconds what would otherwise take days to achieve. Real Engineering has the story.

Grandpa Amu has spent decades of his life crafting objects from wood. In this video, you’ll see him turn a block of safflower pear wood into a detailed fire truck. What makes this gift for his grandson even more remarkable is that all of the pieces connect using wood joints, requiring no glue or nails to hold them together.

Jake O’Neal from Animagraffs creates detailed see-through 3D illustrations which show how things work. In this video, he walks us through the inner workings of a typical fire engine for a look at how firefighters ride inside the truck, its lights and sirens, its powerful water-pumping system, and onboard safety gear.

Many of us loved to play with our toy fire twucks when we were little kids, but the real fire-fighting machines are much more impressive. Donut Media dropped by the Oxnard Fire Department to learn all about the many features and gear on board their shiny new 2020 Pierce Arrow XT fire truck.