Types of Emergency Vehicles with Tanks
Here is a list with a description of emergency vehicles that typically or can have water and or foam tanks.
Aerial Fire Apparatus.
A vehicle equipped with an aerial ladder, elevating platform, or water tower that is designed and equipped to support firefighting and rescue operations by positioning personnel, handling materials, providing continuous egress, or discharging water at positions elevated from the ground.
Aerial Ladder.
A self-supporting, turntable-mounted, power-operated ladder of two or more sections permanently attached to a self-propelled automotive fire apparatus and designed to provide a continuous egress route from an elevated position to the ground.
Rear Mount Aerial Ladder Mid Mount Aerial Ladder
Tractor Drawn Aerial
Aerial Platform.
A self-supporting, turntable-mounted, power-operated elevating platform of two or more sections permanently attached to a self-propelled automotive fire apparatus and designed to provide a continuous egress route from an elevated position to the ground.
Rear Mount Aerial Platform Mid Mount Aerial Platform
Initial Attack Apparatus.
Fire apparatus with a fire pump of at least 250 GPM (1000 L/min) capacity, water tank, and hose body whose primary purpose is to initiate a fire suppression attack on structural, vehicular, or vegetation fires, and to support associated fire department operations.
Mobile Foam Fire Apparatus.
Fire apparatus with a permanently mounted fire pump, foam proportioning system, and foam concentrate tank(s) whose primary purpose is the control and extinguishment of flammable and combustible liquid fires in storage tanks and spills.
Mobile Water Supply Apparatus (Tanker, Tender).
A vehicle designed primarily for transporting (pickup, transporting, and delivering) water to fire emergency scenes to be applied by other vehicles or pumping equipment.
Custom Chassis Commercial Chassis
Pumper.
Fire apparatus with a permanently mounted fire pump of at least 750 GPM (3000 L/min) capacity, water tank, and hose body whose primary purpose is to combat structural and associated fires.
Quint.
Fire apparatus with a permanently mounted fire pump, a water tank, a hose storage area, an aerial ladder or elevating platform with a permanently mounted waterway, and a complement of ground ladders. The primary purpose of this type of apparatus is to combat structural and associated fires and to support fire-fighting and rescue operations by positioning personnel-handling materials, providing continuous egress, or discharging water at positions elevated from the ground.
Water Tower.
An aerial device consisting of permanently mounted power-operated booms that articulate, telescope, or both, and a waterway designed to supply a large capacity mobile elevated water stream.
Wildland
Flatbed Brush Truck Model 34 Type 3 Type: Wildland-urban interface pumpers
Specifications of Wildland Urban Interface Trucks
Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting (ARFF)
4x 4 6x6
8 X 8