A fire crew is watching as occasional fires burn on a hill through lightning that moves along Marsh Creek Road in Brentwood, California, on Monday, August 17, 2020.
A group of firefighters monitors unique fires in aArray.
For $17,000, a Japanese Toyota Hilux chimney truck imported from 1995 is possibly yours.
“This specific unit includes a ladder and hose shelves, a sliding pump tray in the bed, a cargo cart and two driver-side projectors,” says one of the many on Craigslist, which sells trucks with fireplaces in California.
The devastating 2020 wildfires, caused by a ruthless dry lightning typhoon in August amid a rising heat wave, burned more than a million acres of California, and the state’s chimney departments have dangerously depleted firefighters, trucks, and other resources.
It’s not unexpected that concerned citizens are starting to take a look at the protection for DIY chimney locations, however, the chimney truck market on Craigslist right now is unprecedented.
NPR reports that a Sacramento company called Vans From Japan is gaining merit by buying trucks in Japan and making money promoting them in California, and are Craigslist to unload vehicles.
Beyond imported trucks, other on-site offerings recently come with a 2013 Peterbilt tanker truck that can transport 2500 gallons of water to a fireplace and “meet all Cal Fire specifications.”This Pacifica dealer costs $69,000.
At a more moderate price, a “type 6 truck instead of fire” is presented in Napa for $17,500, equipped with a Hale pump and sixty meters of inflexible hose with a nozzle.The dealership reveals: “I bought two of those trucks that were maintained as reserve sets for the arrangement of lime chimney site …but I just want one.”
A dealership expects to get $15,000 for a 53-year-old Ford 150 chimney truck.He admits that he “told the bomb he wanted packings,” but suggests that “with those complex ray chimneys I may be able to use them.”
In recent years, as forest chimneys have become more common, there has also been an increase in the small but developing number of thriving citizens renting personal chimney equipment to monitor their acres.
Cal Fire discouraged attempts to protect its assets by means of an evacuation order.”People don’t perceive the veracity of those chimneys we’ve been dealing with for about five years,” Captain Scott McLean of Cal Fire Fire told SFGATE.unpredictable and you can’t assign what the chimney will do.”
As wildfires are a recurring crisis in California due to warming temperatures, the housing structure on the forest-urban interface, and the effects of climate change, citizens who choose to have their own fire-extinguishing cars inside can succeed on their driveways.
Andrew Chamings is editor of SFGATE. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @AndrewChamings