Bonus #DadJoke
Q: What word starts with an F and ends in "-uck"?
A: Firetruck.
(It's #HootinTootinTuesday again! Post some jokes or funny memes under this hashtag today, and bring lots of smiles to #Mastodon.)
#Humor #Humour #FunnyMeme #Puns #DadJokes #FireFighters #Firemen #Pun #FireFighting #Firetrucks #Firetruck
🔥 A collection of retro 1940s and 1960s fire trucks stored inside an old warehouse, somewhere in France
More photos of the rest of the collection here - https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/other/caserne-saint-bernard-france/
#France #Photography #FireTrucks #FireEngines #Red #Abandoned #AbandonedPlaces #Lost
Introduction
When it comes to safeguarding communities and assets, having the right firefighting equipment is a critical necessity for businesses. In California, a variety of options exist for acquiring fire trucks, whether new, used, or specialized. This article delves into three key avenues for purchasing cal fire trucks for sale. #firetrucks
Introduction
When it comes to safeguarding communities and assets, having the right firefighting equipment is a critical necessity for businesses. In California, a variety of options exist for acquiring fire trucks, whether new, used, or specialized. This article delves into three key avenues for purchasing cal fire trucks for sale. #firetrucks
Introduction
When it comes to safeguarding communities and assets, having the right firefighting equipment is a critical necessity for businesses. In California, a variety of options exist for acquiring fire trucks, whether new, used, or specialized. This article delves into three key avenues for purchasing cal fire trucks for sale. #firetrucks
After a year of testing, our university’s #firedepartment at the #Garching campus shows that #electric #firetrucks are not only feasible but reliable, cutting emissions and noise in daily operations: http://go.tum.de/362073 🚒
📷TUM Werkfeuerwehr
A new Houston Fire Department engine is going unused after the department discovered the truck is too big to fit easily into its station garage.
#CityOfHouston #Houston #Local #News #PublicSafety #CityFinances #FireStation61 #FireTrucks #HoustonFireChiefThomasMunoz #HoustonFireDepartment #JoaquinMartinez
🚑 Emergency services gone wrong! When cosmic dispatch sends fire trucks to broken hearts and ambulances to leadership stress, the Galactic Beat crew learns that some emergencies need different kinds of help!
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FH495WLH
#GalacticBeat #EmergencyServices #FireTrucks #BrokenHearts #LeadershipStress #DifferentKindsOfHelp
#USpolitics #Greed and #FireTrucks
You need fire fighters, right ? Nothing communist about that.
Fire fighters need trucks, right.
Before 2016 most of it was fine, prices reasonable as was the competition.
After the 2008 money collaps [caused by #BigMoney 's own speculative 'mishaps'] manufacturers were struggling.
Now
enter Wall Street and their big equiety money.
Making big profits over your safety and raising your premiums. In a climate that's increasingly prone to burning.
And watch what happened:
"Why America Is Running Out of Fire Trucks" [15:33 min]
by The Hustle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1eJmw295g
Quote by TH:
"May 22, 2025
Across America, fire departments are facing a crisis as their aging fleets deteriorate while replacements remain out of reach.
Cities from Seattle to Atlanta are forced to watch fire truck delivery times stretch from months to 2-4.5 years, with prices skyrocketing beyond municipal budgets. What's behind this mysterious shortage threatening our communities' safety? Who benefits from these artificial backlogs and astronomical price hikes? And how are innovative entrepreneurs fighting to break this dangerous cycle? "
Want to know what industries are ripe for disruption. Find out here:
-> offers.hubspot.com/hustle-industries-ripe-for-disruption <-
#USriseUp #FascistsAreHere #TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#TalkAboutIt #CallYourRep #VoteUpAndDownTheBallot
#WorkersUnite #UnionStrong #CapitalismIsFailingYou
#USpolitics #Greed and #FireTrucks
You need fire fighters, right ? Nothing communist about that.
Fire fighters need trucks, right.
Before 2016 most of it was fine, prices reasonable as was the competition.
After the 2008 money collaps [caused by #BigMoney 's own speculative 'mishaps'] manufacturers were struggling.
Now
enter Wall Street and their big equiety money.
Making big profits over your safety and raising your premiums. In a climate that's increasingly prone to burning.
And watch what happened:
"Why America Is Running Out of Fire Trucks" [15:33 min]
by The Hustle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1eJmw295g
Quote by TH:
"May 22, 2025
Across America, fire departments are facing a crisis as their aging fleets deteriorate while replacements remain out of reach.
Cities from Seattle to Atlanta are forced to watch fire truck delivery times stretch from months to 2-4.5 years, with prices skyrocketing beyond municipal budgets. What's behind this mysterious shortage threatening our communities' safety? Who benefits from these artificial backlogs and astronomical price hikes? And how are innovative entrepreneurs fighting to break this dangerous cycle? "
Want to know what industries are ripe for disruption. Find out here:
-> offers.hubspot.com/hustle-industries-ripe-for-disruption <-
#USriseUp #FascistsAreHere #TimeToResist #FightOligarchy
#TalkAboutIt #CallYourRep #VoteUpAndDownTheBallot
#WorkersUnite #UnionStrong #CapitalismIsFailingYou
I cannot stand private equity.
I cannot stand this unencumbered merging of companies and mass-consolidation and anti-trust completely forgotten.
I cannot stand this race to the bottom.
I cannot stand how it's happening in EVERY SINGLE INDUSTRY, SIMULTANEOUSLY.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl1eJmw295g
#FireDepartment #FireTrucks
Here’s something we can do to revive craft machine manufacturing: socialize custom firefighting equipment building. Firefighters certainly must require equipment unique to their home terrains. And with more extreme climate conditions, adaptable and mobile equipment is also necessary. It’s time to reject capitalist obsession with the Henry Ford model. I know about an ideal factory site in Seattle area.
#firetrucks #palisadesfire #backlog #privateequity
When I rode to my house yesterday in the afternoon I felt the energy in the street was not right
That was when I was 20 minutes out
At three 🕞 minutes distance I was absolutely certain that a lot was wrong, and I wasn't surprised when I saw the fire trucks close to the houses 🏠 in between the tax office and the brick street.
A massive fire 🔥 which started in an abandoned building {which burned to the ground} hit an apartment building with about 16 units, then raged through a wooden house where an acquaintance of mine lives, levelling that house in minutes. While the fire 🔥 was burning the wooden one story house was also charring the house beside it.
The fire department had experience with a massive fire in my street more than a decade ago, came with everything {twelve trucks including tankers} and they came fast.
Everyone who was living in the apartment building evacuated safely. A woman ♀️ who I know well confirmed that fact.
However my acquaintance was already intoxicated by the fumes and refused to leave the house thinking that the rescue team from the fire department were robbers!
He was standing with a shotgun ready, didn't point it at them, but refused to leave.
The rescue team was forced to leave him behind and he fell unconscious. When they heard the thump of his corpus hitting the wooden floor, they grabbed him and rushed him to hospital, where he succumbed to the smoke inhalation.
So the abandoned building ignited the apartment building which ignited the wooden house which charred the building beside it. In total three buildings burned, two charred and One person suffocated in the ER. The fire was under control within a very reasonable time, given the fact that my fire department does not have the equipment they need to get every year.
My sincerest Thanks goes to the fire rescue team, because without them the whole block would have burned down...
🌺💜🎼 🎶 🎸 #Lobi ✨ 💖💕🌹💐💖 💙💜💖🦋
Maybe it's time to start buying Chinese #firetrucks too.
(Apologies for the Betteridge headline. The actual piece is better.)
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/did-a-private-equity-fire-truck-roll
boston, massachusetts
august 1959
back bay fire
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/51845141233
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dboo/12109816283/
part of an archival project, featuring the photographs of nick dewolf
© the Nick DeWolf Foundation
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#photography #film #blackandwhite #bw #boston #massachusetts #backbay #streetphotography #firedepartment #firetrucks #people #buildings #ladders #1950s
Scenes from Oroville, CA
Firefighters staying at the hotel where I stayed in Oroville on 8/15/24. They were fighting the Park Fire, an arson caused fire that started on 7/24/24 and to date has burned 429,603 acres, the fourth largest in recorded California history. The trucks are from San Bernardino County Fire Department. #ParkFire #wildfire #handcrew #firefighters #SanBernadino #Oroville #ButteCounty #firetrucks #California
