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CarStuff

How Fire Engines Work

CarStuff

iHeartPodcasts

History, Leisure, Automotive

4.4584 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2010

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Everyone's familiar with firetrucks. They're bright red, they're huge -- and they can be incredibly loud. So how do they work? Listen in as Scott and Ben take a closer look at fire and rescue vehicles.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:05.5

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0:24.6

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0:26.5

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0:28.9

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0:34.5

Go behind the wheel and under the hood on everything automotive with high speed stuff from how stuff works.com. Go behind the wheel and under the hood on everything automotive with high speed stuff

0:38.9

from how stuff works.com.

0:46.3

Hey everybody, this is high speed stuff and I'm Scott Benjamin, the auto editor here at

0:50.2

how stuff works.com.

0:51.4

My name is Ben Bowlin.

0:52.8

I am a video writer here at the same website.

0:55.6

How you don't, Ben?

0:56.5

I'm stoked, man. It's awesome to be back in the booth again. Are you really? You're stoked. Yeah. Stoked. You cleaned up pretty nice. Kids saying that now these days? Oh, man. I'm trying to bring it back. You know, you guys, Scott looks pretty clean cut today.

1:12.2

You got a haircut.

1:13.1

Yeah, got a haircut.

1:13.2

Finally got that haircut we're talking about. Yeah, I'm spiffing up a little bit. Dress needs some work, but I'm getting on it. And one of our chairs in the studio actually has a little bit of a sliding forward thing. So sometimes when it sounds like Scott and I are doing this intro no you, you know what I'm talking about, dude. It's like the back end of the chair. I gave it to you this time. Yeah, yeah. So that's why it sounds a little awkward because we always have that, who's getting that chair. Someone's falling out of the chair. Doesn't matter who you are. Yeah. Someone's going, but we're here to talk about emergencies today, right? Definitely. Bigger than slide each other. Yeah, and this is something that I got to tell you, I think from the point that everybody is a little child, they love watching emergency vehicles on the road. I mean, it means that somebody's having a bad day, of course. Sure. But I love watching fire trucks. I love following fire trucks. I mean, I honestly, I'm kind of embarrassed to admit it, but I'll follow a fire truck to a fire to see if it's close.

2:07.3

Even now?

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