[fireftr18]

A couple interesting things came across Facebook today. I thought I would share.
This one is in Bern. A little background first. The North American model for fire protection as designed by Ben Franklin has many small fire stations spread out. That means we have a lot of fire stations with a small number of trucks. In many large cities in Europe, the model is fewer, but extremely large stations. Now every so often, a fire department needs to move the station. Whether change the location to a more strategic spot, or the station needs to be upgraded, but the cost to build new is better, or whatever else. In North America, moving a station is really unnoticeable. When you have a station that has 30 or more pieces of apparatus, then it's a sight to see. This is a video of moving equipment in Bern from it's old station to the new one.