Fire Engine or Fire Truck?

**bevy121** · 26-01-2021, 02:26 PM

Originally Posted by B.M.

He has a draw full of "Long Service" medals.

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he has a what???

oh, perhaps you mean drawer

**B.M.** · 26-01-2021, 04:41 PM

Originally Posted by bevy121

he has a what???

oh, perhaps you mean drawer

OMG this is awful.

I’ve been caught by the “Spelling Police Woman” who’s been hiding undercover.

What steps should I take?

Which one of you rude buggers said “Long Ones”.

**Lurking** · 26-01-2021, 04:47 PM

They don't only fight fires now. Appliance refers to several different categories, not only fires.

lurking.

**gary67** · 26-01-2021, 07:01 PM

Since I grew up with a paramedic for a Father, firemen/women will always be known as nodding daffodils in my world, When attending anything with a serious injury apparently they would just stand around in their yellow fire helmets nodding.

**Roscoe** · 26-01-2021, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by B.M.

OMG this is awful.

I’ve been caught by the “Spelling Police Woman” who’s been hiding undercover.

What steps should I take?

Which one of you rude buggers said “Long Ones”.

You have to watch out for Bevy. He is after any wrong doers. He's been at it for quite a while.

**B.M.** · 27-01-2021, 07:16 AM

Originally Posted by Roscoe

You have to watch out for Bevy. He is after any wrong doers. He's been at it for quite a while.

"He", you telling me Bevy is a guy.

**Roscoe** · 27-01-2021, 07:54 AM

Originally Posted by B.M.

"He", you telling me Bevy is a guy.

I'm not certain. That's just what I thought. Perhaps Bevy can tell us.

**piroska** · 27-01-2021, 08:21 AM

Originally Posted by Roscoe

I have always called it a fire engine ..........but just lately I have been hearing the Yank version, fire truck.

I don't know, what's logical? An engine, to me, is the bit under the bonnet that powers the vehicle.
You have cars, SUVs, motorbikes and trucks.....

If it's a truck, fire or not, well, a truck is a truck. Not an engine.

Who says oh look a Kenworth engine?

**kenj** · 27-01-2021, 10:00 AM

I was a fireman in Auckland (mainly at Avondale fire station in Blockhouse Bay Rd) from late 1959 to mid 1963) ... We called them Pumps. At a fire if you needed help you got on the radio to Pitt St HQ with a message such as "Make pumps 3"

In early days the fire appliance was the means to carry the pump, whether by horse and cart or suchlike.

Glad I'm not a fireman these days. So much death and destruction to deal with. We only ever had fires as a problem.

Ken