Once a common sight, dedicated lighting trucks have long since disappeared from fire service fleets.
New technology has rendered these obsolete, as modern lighting does not need an entirely separate unit, but can be furnished by properly equipped pumpers, aerials and standard rescue trucks.
With its powerful generator and complement of eight giant searchlights, this old rig is fairly typical, and probably dates from the 1960s...
New technology has rendered these obsolete, as modern lighting does not need an entirely separate unit, but can be furnished by properly equipped pumpers, aerials and standard rescue trucks.
With its powerful generator and complement of eight giant searchlights, this old rig is fairly typical, and probably dates from the 1960s...
Added by Rob Johnson on 22 February 2018.