As a 12 year old base BRAT, I had the chance to ride along with my local base fire department on a massive Oshkosh P15 in the early 1970s. That truck loved driving at high speed over rough country and bumpy old farmers fields. They annihilated any ground they drove over without breaking a sweat thanks to their dual Detroit 550 HP engines. That's right, the P-15 had two massive engines in it.

Central seating position, and a V12 in the back. It's like an F1 designer built a firetruck.

Man, Oshkosh builds some hella cool stuff. I want to know this thing's speed capabilities: max speed and acceleration.

I have fond memories of the giant 1970 Oshkosh Titan 8x8 crash tenders at the Landcaster Park Airbase (now CFB Edmonton Garrison). I was 7 years old and watch the fire brigade get 3 of the brand new units plus heavy tanker trucks while living on the base as an Base BRAT. 2 years later I went of a field trip to visit the airbase after my dad retired from the CAF as an elementary school student and watched the live fire fire simulation. Little did I know in 1986 the airbase suffered it's worst air disaster when two Hercs collided while doing a LAPES demo and excercise.

Here in Sweden commercial airfields need to have a full time fire station on its ground (municipal, privat firm or state owned fire department). 30 sec after the alarm goes off the first unit must be out of the gates and after 90 sec the unit should be at the scene (as long as it is on airfield property). Most units are either old Volvo RB90, newer Scania P440 or Rosenbauer Panther

Cool! The 6X's are great! I worked at an airport and see them in action (training) close up!

1987?!? Wow, for the year it's in great shape!

I love these Oshkosh T3000 6X6's. they are my favorite old school but remanufacured fire truck. I prefer the Oshkosh T3000 6X6's refurbished.

I need one of those front mounted hose mods for my Jeep! Great review guys!!

Damn that thing is amazing,

you guys should like the oshkosh P-15

Curious what the response time would be in an alert 3 scenario since the apparatus aren't actually on the airport. Must not be a requirement to reach the scene in 3 minutes. Also the challenge of actually suppressing fuel can be seen in this truck's attempt to put out a fuel truck fire on the interstate a few years back. Even with dumping the full load of water, foam and purple K the fire raged on as if not being touched at all. At best they can only slow it down or perhaps keep it from spreading. Looked as though otherwise the fuel needs to burn itself out. Same can be seen in six or so ARFF units unloading on the one engine fire in Chicago to basically no avail. All they could do was suppress the intensity until the fuel ran out.

Nice !!

You should've had him demo the sirens for you lol.

Curious what the top speed is for this? Or a safe top speed.

Wasn't this very truck used to put out a tanker fire on the freeway a while back?

Could someone tell me from which material is this truck made of? The truck body is from aluminium or stainless steel or? Thanks guys

Is South Metro a privatized department?

That's a neat-o truck... 6x6...

Why sounds keeps going out?

sounds like a 8v71 DD

I always thought Oshkosh was a Name Brand For Infant/Toddlers Clothes😳

We need more water caring aircrafts for forest fires, for international arena and within nation.

Detroit Diesel The Best Engine for Firetruck they Will out perform Any Engines The RMPs are off the charts

I know where this is. Lol

I don’t know anything about Airports & these Emergency Operation Trucks

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