Ambulance Crash - Austin, Texas

[JakeEMTP]

I feel fairly confident the taxpayers paid for these pieces of apparatus. Like some other FD's, equipment you don't need is easily obtained through the FireFighter's Assistance Grant. That means, you and I paid for these.

[emtgrimreaper]

and how long has the drive been there, should know the width.

[Richard B the EMT]

Having ambulance written on it, only means there are EMT's on board. You see fire engines with the same thing.

You do? I have never seen any emergency vehicle with "Ambulance" on the side that didn't transport. I also have never seen any engine or ladder-truck company, even in areas where the Fire Fighters were all cross-trained as EMTs, to say "Ambulance", instead of "EMT".

Even the NYPD's Armored Personnel Carriers, which have "Ambulance" written on the side, can transport patients (usually used to rescue people who are shot, from out of the area of the field of fire). Side note on that, the APVs don't have gun ports or external weapons, but I have been led to believe they do have water cannon mountings.

As to not be insulting to anyone, I must conclude that it might be a local thing to have "Ambulance" written on the side of an engine company, because the vehicle has EMTs on board.