Posted on 01/14/2025 5:32:05 AM PST by TigerClaws
The Los Angeles Fire Department’s new RTX electric fire truck has returned to the dealership for repairs to the tank.
The vehicle was undergoing familiarization and testing activities Wednesday before being placed into service when water began leaking from the tank, according to Rosenbauer, the truck’s manufacturer.
Photos: LAFD Gets Rosenbauer Electric Fire Apparatus
Rosenbauer said in a statement that tank issues on new vehicles are not uncommon and service technicians are investigating the cause of the trouble. The story first surfaced in online videos showing water leaking from the truck.
Rosenbauer said the leak will not effect the driveline or electrical components in the vehicle. The next step for the truck, after repairs, is operational training in preparation for putting it into service.
The truck is billed as the first all-electric fire truck in America as it is designed to fully operate only on batteries.
But... doesn't get the job done.
Good microcosm of those running the LAFD.
15% of their firetrucks were out of commission due to maintenance issues at the time of the fire (per the story on that I posted yesterday).
electric firetruck.
I had one as a child , battery operated, lights, sirens , the pumping part, not so much, it was a toy.
I suspect the same here, only much more expensive.
Here’s their press release on the truck:
https://lafd.org/news/lafd-chief-debuts-arrival-first-electric-fire-engine
Took 45 minutes to get to the Palisades fire. If they had more of these... they might have cut that time in half.
if the water leak causes the electric vehicle-battery
to start a NEW fire, it will probably be unstoppable.
there could be a motto in this.
A leaky fire truck is pretty bad, but what irks me are the people watching their
homes and everything they own burn to a crisp `being so damned unreasonable.
What else do they want?
<><>they got a latino water chief making $750,000 plus a year.
<><>the LA Water Dept chief says she looks at fires thru an “equity lens.”
<><>they got a lesbian fire chief making an equitable $550,000 per year salary plus perks
<><>they got a fire company staffed with the best DEI hires money can buy
<><>they got knowledgeable DEI’s who know pronouns like nobody’s business
<><>they got a globe-trotting mayor who is an honorary citizen of a Third World hellhole
<><>they got a governor who says 23 dead, 10,000 bldgs in ashes is just “disinformation.”
And still they complain.
I had one as a child , battery operated, lights, sirens , the pumping part, not so much, it was a toy.
That's what electric full-size fire trucks are... toys. Toys for the "environmentally concerned" and the politicians who service them. Nobody thinks about the mission. Some of these LA County fire trucks have to get up into the hills. Many are all-wheel drive for that reason. (I know I used to build body components for a manufacturer who's major customer was LA County -- which is to say the entire state of California.)
She was painful to watch “shout out” , “ proud “ .
Hey, the truck isn’t noisy !
Looked like a shiny new toy.
Leaks aside (I know)... the problem with Electric Powered anything is endurance. That fire truck has to get to the incident and stay there for hours/days. A diesel engine sips fuel at idle. Keeping the battery charged by that diesel is trivial, so all the onboard sub-systems can remain operable. Try that will an all-electric firetruck.
You can’t make this $h!t up.
Electric firetruck, cool—it can put itself out.
LOL! Old Sparky isn’t going to cut it, huh?
Just curious - when a firetruck gets on site for a fire, one of the first things they do is hook up to a WATER source.
With an EV firetruck, do they NOW not only have to hook up to a WATER source but then use a very long extension cord to PLUG INTO a CHARGER???? How long can an EV stay on site before the battery dies??
Maybe they should bring a portable ICE generator to provide power to the EV firetruck.
You’d have the gas-powered generator to power the electric firetruck so you don’t have to plug it in.
Or maybe this firetruck is a lesbian firetruck powered by rainbows and unicorn farts.
my California friend, who moved to Florida from L.A., said their acronym says it all, LAFD. then he laughed.
LOL!
Steve Guttenberg - of Police Academy movies fame - was out in neighborhood trying to help out. The whole place (Palisades) burned up.
But the LAFD would make a good comedy. Guttenberg could be the transgender Fire Chief leading a crew of out-of-shape misfits through training. But at the end - when the big fire breaks out - she calls up Oregon, Canada, and Mexico to come do the actual work.
Not unlike what is happening here.
70 mph winds today.
Hope the Mexicans can put it out.
Not very quick or easily according to what is revealed by photos of electric cars on fire!
More popcorn!!!
Any adult believing an electric vehicle to be appropriate for use in demanding, life or death applications exposes themselves as a dangerously childish ideologue with all the intellectual horsepower of my cat (to whom I apologize...). So incredibly sick of this kind of bizarre, malignant idiocy.
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