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  • They were probably filming a commercial

  • hey boss its called a jet dump

  • i drive one like that out here in washington. ours is a 1993 Kenworth with a 3000 gallon tank.

  • Sometimes Film production companys Will utilize local FD for Filming. Prob made the road wet for a Car commercial.

  • You REALLY need to get out more often....

  • this is for forest control...if any forest near you is burning they come to put the water on it...so just that the fire can't get on burning.

  • we do that too like when we use only half a tank we will dump the rest coz driving a tanker with half a tank of water up and down hills feels rough

  • it was proabaly just dumping water and since it was going uphill all of it could flow out better so they could put fresh water in 

  • is this in connecticut?

  • @ErikKnutsMusic New Milford, CT.

  • @XBaneyX hey sped its a tanker truck

  • id say they were filming a comercial like the cop said?

  • this is a tanker and they were prob draining

  • so, its so wrong there cleaning up after chuck norris?

  • dude what makes it strange? a truck cant take a piss?

  • Thats obviously a tanker

  • That is indeed a tanker (aka Water Tender in California) with a remote dump valves operated from inside the cab. The either were filming a commercial as LEO had stated. or maybe decided to water the asphalt.

  • Its just pissing no need to worry

  • we do that in missouri to get the salt and sand off the road

  • why is this a wierd fire truck? its a tanker, it hold alot of water

  • Could be he hooked up to a dry hydrant and is dumping his tank. Our city when it hooks up to a dry hydrant when assisting my department they dump the tank before going into town and gets city water from a hydrant so it doesnt mess there tanker up. Ours is designed for having shitty pond water in it

  • This is called preventative maintenance. That street won't burn for AT LEAST the next 6 hours.

  • That is a tanker

  • they were filming a commercial, by putting water on the road way it makes the car reflect and stand out from the wet road, our volunteer engine used to go out and we'd hose the road right before the commercial to give it more appealing look on tv.

  • the city had budget cuts, so the fire department runs street cleaning

  • prepping the road for drifting, people are clearly blind

  • just ldraining his left over water.

  • that my friends is a t-p tanker pumper and they just where emptying it i dont now why in the street but thats what it is

  • in l.a. that would be a tender, during the station fire they were used for the helicopters.

  • i want this to fill my pool waty hhhhhyyyyypppppeeeeerrrrr

  • If it gets shit done...

  • Thats a tanker bud

  • Like said in other comments, it is a tanker. That red box has a collapsible pool pretty much and if there is a big structure fire of some kind the firefighters can unload that pool, dump the water in it like they are doing in the video and go get more water while the engine at the scene can draft water out of the pool and have plenty of water supply.

  • Yeah either he had half a tank and he's dumping it for safety reasons, or during a fire they may have been using water from a lake, pond or river. In that case you want to dump that water out before parking the truck in the station because the organic material in natural water can make things nasty

  • he is obviously watering the road to make sure that it gets the vital nutrient necessary for pavement photosynthesis

  • Guess who's most popular during the winter season? Think about it... think harder... water... roads... below zero temperatures... =) There you go... =)

  • Its a tanker or tender, depending on what part of the country you live in they are called different. He most likely is dumping the rest of his water after a call becuase he still had half a tank left. Those are not fun to drive back to the station half full, water swashes around in the tank and makes turning a little difficult, so we dump whats left

  • @TF79Swain Depends. On older tankers, the water did slosh around alot, but on these newer tankers, they have baffles in the tank that prevent the water from doing such. However, loaded tankers are still a pain. Makes for a very slow trip up hills and harder to stop downhill.

  • @nsrailfann4life91 I know that we still empty our even tho they are new. Even with the baffles it seems to make the truck steer awkward.

  • I know my department does this for grants to show what equipment we need...We will borrow from another department and make a video and send it in with our forms.

  • water tender-supplies engines and fire suppression crews with water giving them more fight time less refill time keeps fire fighters working longer without stopping for refills

  • he was probably dumping the water so he didnt roll over if he was just like half full

  • This is not a "tanker." This is called a "tender." There are tankers in the fire service, but they fly. If it's driving, it is a tender. They are used mostly for rural fire operations when there are no hydrants around. They haul between 1500 and 4K gallons of water to the scene, usually dump it all into a big portable pool, and then the engines can pump that water onto the fire while the tender goes to re-load with more water. "they are too slow when full" is wrong. Lots of water > than speed.

  • @MrDantastic27 Actually, east of the missiissippi, this is a tanker, tenders do not exist over here

  • @bowlingfirefighter my department is east of the mississippi and we say tender here too. There is a good article about it in one of my comments above if you are interested.

  • @MrDantastic27 That is a Tanker, I am a firefighter and I would know. See the big tank on the back...thats a give away. A Tender is pretty well the same thing but used in other countries like Germany for Forest Fires. Not called a Tender over here. And Tankers don't fly? In short story, what you see in the video is a Tanker. It looks to be just dumping its water for a specific reason, on the fire service dumping your water it usually goes into a Porta-Pond so it can be drafted into the pumper.

  • @leafsrule1234 I'm a firefighter too and it appears that this is one of the great debates in the fire service. I found a good article in the forums section of my.firefighternation but youtube wont let me post the address. search for ICS & NIMS TANKER VS. TENDER DEFINITIONS in the forum section. Also use dot com at the end of the address.

  • @leafsrule1234 Also, when typing that web address, don't use the 3 w's at the beginning.  Just start with my.firefighternation

  • @MrDantastic27 If you say fly as in an Airplane fly, that is called a Water Bomber that carries water in the air to fight forest fires

  • @MrDantastic27 ......My dept Mr.D Has 2 tankers aka T-600 Kenworth wheeler and the other is a 89 International Loadstar Both with 5000 Gallon tanks and both trucks are capable of doing 75 mph's both have the same abilty as any other method outh there when your 8 miles from a hydrant....

  • @MrDantastic27 east and west call it different names. tankers and tenders are the same thing.

  • That, that would be a tanker.

  • @alanalanalan21 That would be a tender! tankers fly, tenders drive

  • its called a tanker and the reason why it dumping water on the road its bc there getting rid of the old water in the tank some waters have metals in them and will cause the tank to rust if you dont put new water in them every so often

  • @drwhorocs112g this is true, my department does the same thing every month to keep the water in the tankers fresh.

  • maybe they were filming a car commercial and wanted to show how good it handles on wet roads?

  • It's simple, its a tanker. We have a neighboring station with a truck like that. And if the police office told you the were filming a commercial, they were probably filming the rate that the water flows out of the chutes. As a volunteer firefighter myself, i know how important it is to have optimum water flow in an emergency situation, so more than likely that is what they are doing, just to demonstrate it.

  • its a tanker emptying its self

  • its a tanker its too slow when full

  • That's some fire apperatus

  • I bet it was a car commercial and they wanted the roads to look sleak and wet to make the car look good. Its quite the scenery you have by your house, you know.

  • its a tanker

  • they were lettin out drafted water and goin to refill at a hydrant for clean water my dept does the same thing

  • water nothin more like portable lake

  • that is a fire tanker it refills all fire trucks

  • or they coulda been just telling you it was a commercial because your a dumb f*** nosy little retard, and they could have actually been filling up your neighbors pool (you dont use water that has been sitting in the truck to fill the pool, you dump it on the road and re fill with fresh treated water) and didnt want your nosy retard self over there. 

  • or they just dumped untreated water out to replace it with treated water because you dont want creek water or pond water sitting in the tank- its bad for the tank, the pump, and the pipes

  • And as for what they are doing in this video, obviously the cop said its for a commercial- so im not sure what you don't understand about that. But I guess I will break it down for you. Apparently somebody came to the fire department and said "hey guys, I would like to make a commercial, but I need the road wet for this commercial. If we make a donation to your department, will you be willing to come out and wet the road for us?" and the fire department officer said "sure" and ta da....

  • its called a tanker. Usually carries at least 2000 gallons. Its used for hauling water to areas without a water point such as a pressurized hydrant. So that we can shuttle large amounts of water at a time to an area way up in the sticks of Gods green nowhere.

  • I drive half full water tankers all the time O_o

  • thats a water truck we have 1 in out town becuase we dont have fire hydrents and thanks for shareing

  • @robynchoochoo a "water truck" huh? lol... God I hope you aren't on that department. Now if you are just somebody who has seen this type truck, but aren't familiar with this type of apparatus, your actually pretty close. Its called a tanker, and is used for areas where a shuttle is necessary to supply water. versus hooking straight into a pressurized hydrant from the engine.. good job if your not in the fire service, but God help that fire district if you are a firefighter lol

  • its just a tanker i drive one on most our calls

  • My bf is like "it's not weird it's a firetruck" (he is a firefighter) I'm like "I never seen that b4 soo it hella weird o-o;". Then we fought ova how much of a smartass he is :D

  • @MrEJSchroeder, ummmmm.....no. That is not correct, we have a 2500 gallon tanker and it doesnt matter if its 75%,50%,25% full, you can drive it however fast you want. Just so you will know for next time, they put baffles in the tanks to keep the water from sloshing like that.

  • @TAPhillips2 Yes, baffles are correct if the tanks have them. Departments are not required to follow NFPA standards. In my department we had a truck that was an old milk truck with a 2300 gallon tank that did not have baffles. Its all about age and how it was built.

  • I don't see what all the fuss is about, it's obviously just a firetruck taking a piss.

  • @HometownK thats just not a fire truck iits a tanker they use in urban areas where no fire thing is

  • @HometownK yea and its just water. obvisouly this guy its a water freak

  • Just emptying out the tanker. I'm a cadet on a fire department and to empty our tanker out. The fire fighters have us cadets go out to a training sight and see if we can control the hoses. Never like this though. But we no longer have our old Open cab tanker </3 new 2011 peterbuilt

  • It's a tender bro

  • @0pelicious its a tender bro? sounds like you dont have any manners

  • Dumping water from a pond/lake to fill up with hydrant water. We do it on our department as well, the sediment from a pond/lake is ok to pump but isn't stuff you want sitting in your tanker.

  • or maybe it is dumping out pond or creek water from filling up at a draft site

  • gobe760 is probably most likely to be right . . . Im also a firefighter and other then doing it just for kicks I cant think of any better reason, if they were just being stupid they wouldnt do it with a cop at the end of the street

  • its a tanker with some left over water in it.. drain the water out or it screws up your driving wicked. only when a tanker is full is it really safe to drive on the road

  • If a tanker uses salt water, it will rust the tank and pump. so

  • and this is why we are the fire fighters and you are the ones standing on the side watching us. its not uncommon at all

  • Thirst Road is Thirsty..

  • its called a water tender engine

  • If the tanker had used some of its water it needs to empty the rest before driving at 20+ mph to avoid a rollover. When the tank is not empty or full the water can slosh around during turns. If it didnt empty it would increase the trucks chance of rolling over.

  • the most pointless 1 too

  • It's a tanker... and maybe they were asked by the county to wet the area for what ever reason.

  • not sure what they're doing im a firefighter and i can't think why they'd be dumping the entire tanker on the road but what gobo760 says could be possible but its hard to say

  • My guess would be emptying the tank and also they can't have the water stay in the tank for to long either or it will get ugly.

  • Not a firetruck stupid, it pours hot water on roadways to melt any black ice which prevents car accidents

    

  • @camerongoll hahahaha this is the dumbest fucking think I have ever heard!!!

  • @camerongoll No, no it doesn't. This water would just inturn freeze, causing their to be twice as much ice on the road.

  • @camerongoll wouldn't the hot water turn cold then freeze making more ice?

  • @camerongoll Do that to your driveway and tell me how that works alright?

  • @camerongoll They are using the truck to wet the road for the commercial. This truck is normally used to transport water to fires in areas without fire hydrants.

  • @camerongoll That is a firetruck. Im in a Vol. Fire Dept and that is a tanker truck, as a common name, that is used to shuttle water from a source to the fire in areas without hydrants. The valves being used to empty the water out the rear is used to fill "drop tanks" which add to the water storage at the fire

  • It's called "wetting down the roads". It's done in both movies and in commercials. When roads are wet, they appear both better maintained, and also reflect the colors and lights surrounding them, making the roads themselves look more beautiful. If you ever watch a movie or commercial where a car is driving on a road (car commercials are especially notorious for this) the car is almost always driving on a wet surface.

  • @nikonguy102 Wrong it's a tanker truck used for when no hydrants are around to supply other trucks

  • your mom doesnt need a douchebag..........she gots a douche truck.

  • it would be cooler if it was a septic truck

  • no one is gonna set this road on fire!

  • your a fuckin dumb ass its a tanker in hickvill draining its tanks.

  • Its just taking a leak

  • well I would have to agree with the wet road commercial however I know when we fill our tanker with pond water or any other non treated water we must dump it and refill it with fresh treated town water off a hydrant or we will have problems with little green guys wanting to grow and live in it and thats not good at all.

  • This is a watervtruck used for forest fires

  • Correct me if I'm wrong guys, but I believe this truck is used to set up burn lines. They drive along the road, or pieces of land and dump water like this to make a wet strip of land or road to contain the flame, in controlled burns. In this case though I believe b7farms716 is correct

  • @crazedcountryboy Consider yourself corrected. The dump valves are so the truck can be emptied, quickly, into portable water holding devices known as "Portable Ponds" or "Porta-Tanks". A metal framed, folding, vinyl or canvas device which is stored on a fire truck. You can set several of them up at a fire, usually a rural fire scene, where there are no fire hydrants. The trucks fighting the fire then draft or siphon the water out of said portable device, and into their trucks.

  • can you say " conspicery " i spled it so ya can rede it :)

  • it cleaning the road

  • More like... Water Truck!

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  • filmcrew

  • I want to buy one of these to put water on the roads on school nights in winter!

  • @ziggyboi1995 I think that is what it's for.

  • The tank was dumping water for a tire performance commercial, and wet roads make the best examples.

  • why is it in news and poitics

  • u r a retard

    u have never seen a fire truck like this!

    omg lol

  • its called a tanker, not really weird.

  • he is going to make a drift track.

  • maybe thts cheaper than a street sweeper

  • washing the road off lol

  • @bulliednomore its nfpa standard now to have a amber on back... an noone knows whats goin on but the driver..lol

  • In our department our tankers and brush trucks must have either full or empty tank when being driven. If the tanks are even missing a little bit of water we are required to dump the tank and go refill it,

  • @MISCHIF2: I have total respect for the fire department and firefighters, but that policy seems like a complete waste of time and resources. Is there a driving safety issue when the tank isn't full or empty?

  • @mlady204103 They are trained well to drive the tanker full or empty. Some departments have regulations that sometime require them to dump the water and refill. Who knows where they got the water from. It could have come from a pond or swimming pool.

  • @mlady204103 the tank has to be full if you are ressponding to a call in my department

  • they could have been cleaning the roads

  • Our fire department sometimes gets asked by the township to dump water along a road to test the road's stormwater system while engineers observe the runoff into the sewer. Something like that could have been happening here.

  • This is a water tender/tanker. (Depending on your location it can be called either) If they were filming a commercial I can only assume that they needed a wet road for it and used this apparatus to put the water on the road.

  • im a firemen. in your area im assuming there are close to no hydrants. the purpose of this truck is to basically fill temporary pools of water so other pumpers can draft out of them and pump water to the fire. they were probably comming from a fire or something and had half a tank and didnt bother driving back to the firehouse with a full tank.

  • there could have been some oil on the road so they where washing it away

  • @HuwsNursery not our job to lean oil bud

  • @maudester....ptg4n6 is correct they are called tenders..an air apparatus is a tanker...but in most cases all depts call them tankers...as u are correct to my depts call them tankers also.... an notice the orange light on the tanker its prolly a surplused unit used as an water truck now

  • @Kubota606 Fire trucks in my city all have amber lights on them as well as red and blue just like this one. We have tankers just like this one. Here they use them for brush and forest fires mostly. They were probably draining the tank to release sediment inside the tank. They have to flush the mineral sediment every so often so it doesn't clog up the fittings or hoses.

  • I've seen trucks like these spraying water and it turns out it's salt water, works good for melting black ice quickly.

  • THERES NO FIRE CAN SOMEBODY PLZ EXPLAIN THIS

  • This truck is called a TENDER. It is for water transport in areas that are not covered by hydrant water supply, They are most common in rural areas and forested areas.

    They also carry portable water tanks, that can be deployed at structure fires for additional water supply if necessary for additional engine companys.

    FYI: In the fire service a "TANKER" is an aircraft . This piece of apparatus is a "TENDER.

  • @ptg4n6 idk what fire service your with but our department and all the other departments in this area call them "TANKERS".

  • @XBaneyX From the sound in the video I can tell that it was really windy and in Winter it's very dry. These are two huge ingredients in a brush fire.

  • lol they were wetting the road down....they said they were filming a commercial. which part of this confuses you?  if you call 911 and you have a fire and no fire hydrants...that truck comes and "Delivers" the water to your Home....just Like a Big Breast Milk Truck

  • there is too much NIMS in these responses. We flush our "tenders" every few months. sometimes there is sediment in the tank that can reek havoc on the pump. so we dump the water and then refill the tank.

  • It's a tanker truck, our stations and most other stations call it "Tanker" they hold around 5,000 gallons of water and they are brought to huge fires as a back up water supply. The truck was just emptying it's load, surprised you never saw it, they're very common.

  • If it was for a TV commercial, they are wetting the road for atmospheric effect, or for a segment on how a car handles wet roads.

  • those shoots on the back and side are to fill a portable Pond at the scene of a structure fire.. thier called Quick Dumps so they can go refill the truck and the scene still has water

  • @onebradh they're primarily used to fill portable tanks for wildland fires, unless you r fighting rural structure fires and do not have a water supply

  • its obviously just a firetruck taking a piss.

  • @rdinghigh Lolol too funny it must of been a female

  • Many directors like to have a wet roadway to shoot car commercials -- in order to reflect light onto the underside of the vehicle. The tanker is doing a dump and roll along the route that has been planned out for the shot. A regular pumper cannot move when pumping, and it carries much less water.

  • @FilmLou its actually called a tender

  • @tim41465 Thanks Tim!

  • it's that tanker?

  • @HONGYOUNGEUN no its a tender

  • I have heard of FDs using wet streets as firebreaks, in case of a forest/brush fire. Wet the roads, and the fire embers wont spread to the other side.

  • @thedish5 you are correct, however they wouldnt do this in winter, look at the trees, its winter time, not fire season

  • @tim41465 Winter time fires are actually quite common in places like Florida, because humidity decreases making it easier for the sun to take action.

  • @thedish5 with all due respect, that doesn't make much sense. Embers are carried by the wind and cause spot fires regardless if a street is wet or not.

  • Its called a tender. You must have limited hydrant access in your area. 

  • would suck if it all froze..

  • Damn he got to pee.

  • they do it so there be more crashes so they get something to do and make them look good