Fire Engines Photos

This is a 4WD Light Pumper, first due on working fires in the old sections of Lisbon where narrow streets do not allow access to the bolder Pumpers.It carries on board the Officer on Duty for the urban district concerned by the incident plus driver and 3 other firefighters

Added by APR343 on 03 April 2014.

Built from 1997 to 1996, the UMM was built and powered by Peugeot for this Portuguese firm. They were popular with military, police and fire services as well as civilian users, and many were exported to Angola and a few other countries.

Like Land Rovers and other small 4X4s, they were quite susceptible to being seriously overloaded, and this example looks like it may have been no exception.

The city of Lisbon has some very steep and narrow streets, but the road surfaces would not seem to me to be so bad as to make it necessary to use a 4X4 as a first response unit...

Added by Rob Johnson on 22 April 2018.

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