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Rosenbauer is a worldwide company and they have an American division (they bought RK Aerials, Central States, and General Safety several years ago). This particular truck has European roots but Rosenbauer has been working to bring some of that over here. Its not all bad, they do have some good ideas but then others really don't fit into the way us Americans operate. Yes, the reported price is $6 million (US Dollars???) and if you look a the specs for the most part it would be able to handle a majority of the incidents and have "zero emissions" (don't start that discussion...) HOWEVER the run time is 30 minutes or so. On some of our runs I can't make it to the incident and back in that time let alone my time on-scene. That needs to be figured out first, most of our days we can be running for 3 hours before we would have time to recharge. News link with spec sheet... https://electrek.co/2019/12/12/electric-fire-engine-us/

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2016 Tahoe (via google) - not sure of location

This list is from 2009... http://ufsw.org/pdfs/apparatus_inventory.pdf

Chevrons (red/yellow) are required to be NFPA compliant. If the truck does not have them installed or are different colors when built then most manufacturers will make the department sign a waiver stating that the apparatus does not meet NFPA requirements. We are going through a similar situation right now, previous engine built by Manufacturer A in 2014 has the red & yellow chevron to meet NFPA, actual color of the yellow scotchlite is "Lemon Yellow". No issues. Currently having a ladder built by Manufacturer B, they want us to sign a waiver because "Lemon Yellow" in not yellow per the NFPA list. Last I checked yellow was yellow but they are taking a literal translation that "yellow" scotchlite (looks more orange) is the only yellow allowed because NFPA just says yellow (not lemon yellow). We pulled the data sheet and Lemon Yellow actually out performs the regular Yellow. We will see what happens with this as we are pushing back on it.