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Rescue Machines: The World's Most Iconic Ambulances, Fire Engines, and Emergency Vehicles

Rescue Machines: The World's Most Iconic Ambulances, Fire Engines, and Emergency Vehicles

Psaila, Etienne
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Paperback

Technology & EngineeringAutomobiles

ISBN13: 9798901948231
Publisher: Publishdrive
Published: Jun 26 2026
Pages: 290
Weight: 0.86
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

From the first hand-drawn pumps and horse-drawn ambulances to modern paramedic vehicles, aerial platforms, rescue trucks, bushfire tankers, and airport crash tenders, Rescue Machines tells the story of the vehicles that arrive when life turns urgent.

This clear, fact-based, plain-English book explores how ambulances, fire engines, and emergency-response machines developed around the world, and why they look and work the way they do. It explains the rise of the modern ambulance as a mobile treatment room, the fire engine as a machine of water and power, the ladder truck as a response to height, and the rescue truck as a toolbox on wheels. It also looks at rural tankers, urban rapid-response vehicles, compact Japanese fire appliances, America's large rescue rigs, Britain's high-visibility emergency fleet, Australia's bushfire machines, Canada's winter-ready vehicles, humanitarian emergency transport, and the future of electric and connected rescue fleets.

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