R. M. comments

Posted in: Fire truck arrived at burning home without water, fire department says See in context

I can only speak about my European point of view:

Hmmm doesn't the driver feel the weight of the truck

Depends on the type of the truck and the amount of water. If there's only a small water tank, there's only a small weight difference. When there's a large tank (several 1000 liters), then you'll notice it. Your worst problem is a half filled tank.

aren't there some signals/gauges that water is empty?

We have signals, but only at the pump at the end of the truck. There's no signal at the driver's place. It's your duty to refill the tank after emptying it.

Ok, they arrived without water, but surely had the equipment to rush into the building and pull out any persons stuck therein ?

One of the first things that I have learned is to care for self protection. Without water this might be a rush into suicide. One has to decide by fact if this would be possible. As hard as it may sound, but one dead person in the house is better than the one and two additional firefighters dying there. At least European fire fighters don't (want to) need memorials with the names of their fallen heroes – they want their fellow comrades alive and ready for the next call of emergency.

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