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The Mack Super Pumper was a locomotive engined fire fighter (2018)

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148 points mstngl | 1 comments | 03 Nov 25 20:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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mtmail ◴[03 Nov 25 21:24 UTC] No.45804629[source]▶
How do you extinguish an oil-well fire? Enter the "Big Wind" with two jet engines on a tank chassis. "The water is moving at a maximum rate of 220 gallons of water a second," https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15138374/stilling-the...
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dewey ◴[03 Nov 25 21:48 UTC] No.45804846[source]▶
Tangentially related and recommended. Werner Herzog's film that also features longer sections on the fire fighting efforts on the oil fields.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessons_of_Darkness

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echelon_musk ◴[03 Nov 25 22:16 UTC] No.45805105[source]▶
For lighter viewing there is Sorcerer (1977) [0] with Roy Scheider.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sorcerer_(film)

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dreamcompiler ◴[04 Nov 25 00:07 UTC] No.45806047[source]▶
Great Tangerine Dream soundtrack too.
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PaulDavisThe1st ◴[04 Nov 25 01:36 UTC] No.45806603[source]▶
firefighter and tangerine dream fan, eh? we should cross paths ...
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1. dreamcompiler ◴[04 Nov 25 03:39 UTC] No.45807208{3}[source]▶
Pretty sure I'm just down the road from you too.