Oregon fire trucks are well known for their poor safety and mechanical issues and always have to be checked out when in California.
Posted on 01/14/2025 11:46:57 AM PST by cuz1961
"There is misinformation spreading on social media and from news outlets claiming our equipment had to pass emissions tests and our equipment and firefighters were turned away or delayed. TO BE CLEAR: THIS IS FALSE."
The statement added that trucks and strike teams traveled to Sacramento where they stayed over night, and on the morning of Jan. 9, they went through a routine safety check to make sure their........ engines were mechanically sound.
(Excerpt) Read more at snopes.com ...
.....The Truck and Bus regulation has been in effect since December 2008, as of January 1, 2023, all diesel-powered vehicles operating in California, with a gross vehicle weight rating over 14,000 lbs. must have a 2010 or newer engine . .... .. .and emission system ( smog)..........
so...were those out of state fire trucks california emission compliant ? ( ca. smog compliant )
someone isnt being clear and its snopes imho.
beleive snopes over ca.gov ?
bwa ha ha ha.
sac is hundreds of miles away from l.a.
and they WERE delayed a whole night.
id call that delayed.
Even if not true, it is emblematic of the belief that the California government is actually a Dunciad
In other words, yes, yes they did.
Like a lot of stories that Snopes wants to shit-can, they are quibbling. The trucks had to go through some sort of “safety inspection,” which likely included an emissions inspection (even if just a visual). But because officials used the word “safety” and not “emissions” they get to call the whole story false.
They have more “Sea Lawyers” working at Snopes than the Navy has JAG officers.
“they went through a routine safety check to make sure their........ engines were mechanically sound.”
Firemen would have done this before they took off from Oregon.
Snopes is BS.
>> to make sure their... engines were mechanically sound
total BS — they were unnecessarily delayed despite making the journey from Oregon — same bureaucratic BS that led to the fires
“no he wasn’t shot in the back... total misinformation... he was shot in the front, jeez...”
Snopes is about as reliable as A California Water Reservoir...
It wasn’t smog check it was safety (brake related) checks.
Typical snopes double speak. The trucks were stopped and held pending Ca required inspections. How many houses burned while the trucks were stuck waiting for approval?
California- hold my wine..
Oregon fire trucks are well known for their poor safety and mechanical issues and always have to be checked out when in California.
snopes is still around???wonder if the ow ner ever divorced thatg prostitute he married.
Welcome to California
equity but no water.
“According to Oregon and California’s fire departments, trucks were stopped in Davis, California, just outside Sacramento, for maintenance and safety checks, and those trucks continued onward. “
Ok... so it’s true. Anyone who stops a fire truck ON IT’S WAY to a fire is a Soviet Style A-hole.
Snopes has shown itself to be a lousy fact checker that often supports democrat positions on subjects while sayingrepublican posit ions are false.
And we would believe Snopes...because???
And we would believe Snopes...because???
Fact is they stopped out of state fire trucks for maintenance and safety checks while hundreds of homes burned.
No?
Job 1 for Snopes is to cover for Democrats.
It’s also Jobs 2 through 100.
I recall how they would twist and turn when Hillary Clinton got caught in an obvious lie. Hillary didn’t really lie there, dontcha know? She just confused something that happened to her with something she read in a book when she was 12.
It was almost comical.
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