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Northeast Louisiana | I would say the hard part is truck being cranked up and immediately heading out of station to a fire. Most trucks are plugged in to keep the air buildup, batteries and handheld radios, thermal equipment, flashlights charged up. Some have engine block warmers to keep engine water warm. As a retired firefighter and farmer, I never did like for my farm tractors to be cranked up and immediately start plowing. I prefer them to warm up first.
Sometimes we will have trucks on standby, we crank them and let them run for little but until they are called for and if the call is canceled.
But I will say this, in my 28 years of fire service and several fire engines, we only had one major engine trouble which was caused by a bad fuel injection. It was a Cat engine. Which Cat should have warranted it. But they didn’t. We also stayed on top of everything with good service intervals.
Edit. It’s common to see fire trucks with extremely low mileage but lots of engine hours.
Edited by SteigerSt320 1/17/2026 15:35
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