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Redundant These articles overlap heavily, and even content hase been copied between them. I guess that
Fire Engine should describe only pumpers, maybe tenders and ladders with a pump. This article should give an overview. Ladders should have an article of their own. The content is mostly focused on the USA, and because the situation there is not known to me, I cannot make these changes. e.g.: what is the definition of a fire truck? --
Mopskatze (
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01:35, 31 March 2017 (UTC)reply
:P.S.: I think this is the right way: import versions of the fire engines. Merge any useful text from this to fire apparatus. Then export the versions of the latter to fire ladder, removing all non-matching stuff. Remove all irrevelant stuff from fire engines. --
Mopskatze (
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01:54, 31 March 2017 (UTC)reply
On review, I do not know what I meant when writing that, I must have been too tired. The problem is the
Fire engine article, covering all kinds of vehicles. I actually prefer that stuff with an article of its own is only described to the minimum extent. --
Mopskatze (
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02:48, 1 April 2017 (UTC)reply
(Yes, I know this is a dead discussion, but it was referenced in a current AfD)
Fire engine should not discuss vehicles unless they are 1) land mobile, 2) have an internal water tank of some capacity, and 3) have a pump. I would argue that it could properly exclude apparatus that have a primary role as a tender or tanker as well.
Jclemens (
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23:29, 3 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Fire Train Section Removed. Why?
Why was the fire train section of this article removed? There is proof that fire trains exist. There are reasons that they are out there. They are prevalent in Switzerland, Russia, and in some territories of the United States, currently being used by BNSF, and once used by the Southern Pacific railroad.
JokerFan45 (
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08:48, 4 June 2020 (UTC)reply
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There is a large overlap between this article and
Fire engine. While there is some good content here, it would be much better if it were merged into the Fire engine article. Or alternatively delete Fire engine and merge its content here. Either way there should only by one article where there are currently two.
10mmsocket (
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08:16, 2 April 2021 (UTC)reply
… none of which involves deletion, an adminstrator hitting the administrator-only delete button. You, or indeed any editor without even your privileges as an account-holding editor, could do everything that you've stated above, in fewer edits in fact than the series of edits necessary to make an AFD nomination. And not only are talk pages the things to use to gain consensus about merging
duplicate articles, there's even an open discussion of this already at
Talk:Firefighting apparatus#Duplication?.
Uncle G (
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09:44, 2 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Comment Strictly speaking
WP:SKCRIT#1 applies here. With no prior attempts at editing or discussion, I'm not sure why this wasn't just done
boldly. Indeed in the absence of opposition it could probably still be done boldly and this discussion speedily closed.
2A03:F80:32:194:71:227:81:1 (
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22:10, 3 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Keep The hierarchy may not be clear. A fire apparatus is an umbrella term that can denote a ladder truck, a fire engine, a specialized heavy rescue vehicle, a water tender, an aid car, or any number of special purpose vehicles. Trying to merge "apparatus" with "engine" doesn't make sense. If the article is unclear on that such that non-specialists might think merging the articles is a good idea, then it should be clarified, rather than merged.
Jclemens (
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23:26, 3 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Move: to
Firefighting equipment and brutally re-written. The main issue is my understanding of the definition.. ie (from a google result) "the technical equipment or machinery needed for a particular activity or purpose". In other words equipment (or which fire engines/tenders are a subset). So this article should not be restricting itself to vehicles' in my opinion. In all events don't delete and if redirecting/merging to
Fire engine allow for a later redirect. Show not have been brough to AfD for reasons given above. There may or may not be content worthy of attributed copying. 07:57, 4 April 2021 (UTC) — Preceding
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Weak support merge: The problem is multiple problems. THe essential issue is the entity "Firefighting equipment" covers portable firefighting equipment, fixed firefighting equipment, and firefighting vehicles (itself divided into say land, sea, and air vehicles). It is a question in which article each of these articles should be covered and ensuring the name is appropriate. I decided to very reluctantly support some some of merge of mess into mess as stepping stone to how firefighting equipment (broadly construed) can be improved and covered with an appropriate set of articles. Thankyou.
Djm-leighpark (
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19:39, 10 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Merge: Being a firefighter I know the terms. An engine is any fire truck, including pumper, brush, fast attack, and ladder truck. An apparatus, unless talking about Breathing apparatus (SCBA), is an engine.
Prairie AstronomerTalk19:39, 12 April 2021 (UTC)reply
Oppose - merges are useful when one or both articles are little more than stubs, i.e., not enough content to justify full articles. Or, when two articles have largely duplucate content. That doesn't appear to me to be the case with this article, but, having said that, any redundant material about fire engines in this article can be reduced and a "See main article" box with a link to fire engine added. Seeing, though, that fire engines are only a subset of firefighting apparatuses, that the broader category is notable and worthy of encyclopaedic coverage, and that fire engines are due enough coverage to warrant their own article, I oppose any mergers of these subjects.
Firejuggler86 (
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00:52, 18 April 2021 (UTC)reply
What does this mean?
"Colonial laws in America required each house to have a bucket of water on the front stoop during fires at night."
I assume it means that any house with a fire in a stove during the night was required to have a bucket of water on the stoop in case a fire broke out (which wouldn't work well in the winter anyway). Either that or for some reason they were expected to only have a bucket of water available when a fire broke out in the town somewhere, for the use of the bucket brigade. But this doesn't explain why this would only be necessary at night, nor how the inhabitants were supposed to know when a fire had broken out. The bucket brigade only needs buckets of water at night time? All I know is that it reminds me of requirements I have read of that demand any house with an overnight fire to keep a bucket of water or sand on hand in case a fire breaks out in the house during the night, due to the difficulty of getting together a bucket brigade quickly when everyone is asleep. On the stoop would be a good place in the summer, and often cooking stoves would be kept lit all day and banked at night, even in the summer. All houses would have fires at night in winter, but leaving the water outside wouldn't work because it would just freeze. Sand was usually considered more effective because it didn't freeze or spill or evaporate.