Fire Engines Photos

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Added by on 28 February 2016.

An original design initially built to meet the specific height requirements of the Berlin fire service, which ordered lots of custom low profile fire trucks including both pumps and TLs.

Not a pretty sight, but quite practical, they became quite popular with other fire services all over Germany and quite a few were exported, including a handful to British fire brigades.

The replacement IVECO low profile cab on newer versions is much more attractive, and of course the Mercedes Econic has eaten into the market for low profile appliances since it was introduced for fire service applications.

Added by Rob Johnson on 12 February 2017.

Sorry, this was FAKE NEWS!

The original Magirus low profile ladder - which looked exactly like this one - was in fact actually designed to the requirements of the Munich city fire service, not Berlin! They wanted to replace older conventional control ladder trucks which were a lot lower than the new forward control designs.

But Berlin did also adopt the idea very quickly, buying units on a modified IVECO Club of Four cabbed chassis, then switching to lowered MANs to join their MAN pumper fleet.

Added by Rob Johnson on 14 February 2017.

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