Stolen Fire Truck Smashes More Than 14 Cars In 'grand Theft Auto' Style Rampage

Returning to your car only to find it gone is bad enough. It's moreover worse erstwhile it's your occurrence truck. That's precisely what happened to Everett, Washington, firefighters precocious Friday nighttime aft returning from a aesculapian call, reports ABC News. At astir 11:00 pm, nan first 911 telephone came successful reporting that a occurrence motortruck had collapsed into 2 parked cars and fled. This was astir nan aforesaid clip nan motortruck was discovered missing.

Soon after, a 2nd telephone reported nan motortruck smashing astir 10 vehicles. Police recovered 3 further clang sites while responding to nan 2 that had been reported to 911. At slightest 14 cars were damaged successful total, pinch ABC News reporting astatine slightest 16 confirmed. The driver and evident thief of nan truck, whose personality remains unknown, abandoned nan truck, fled nan segment connected foot, and remains astatine large.

The occurrence motortruck successful mobility is a 2018 Pierce Enforcer Pumper, according to nan Everett Fire Department's Facebook post. It's 1 of nan newer vehicles successful nan fleet and weighs complete 35,000 pounds, making it a important hazard successful nan hands of a driver not trained to thrust a conveyance that heavy. It's acold from the world's biggest occurrence truck, but it's good beyond nan 26,000-pound limit of a modular non-commercial driver's license. From my individual "Grand Theft Auto" gameplay, I've learned that occurrence trucks are large, lumbering beasts that are difficult to control, but that steerable h2o cannon connected nan tile is beautiful cool.

We surely wouldn't time off nan motor moving while stepping distant from our cars, truthful why would firefighters? Everett Fire Public Information Officer Rachel Doniger told Fox 13 that nan ray bars, sirens, and different instrumentality tie a batch of electrical powerfulness from nan batteries, and nan motor must stay moving to powerfulness them. This makes consciousness – even I erstwhile needed a jump commencement aft a time of moving my ham power while moving a rally stage, and I wasn't moving a dazzling show of emergency lights for illustration a occurrence motortruck does. Pumper trucks often person generators to proviso further power, but they would not person been moving 1 during a aesculapian telephone erstwhile it wasn't needed. Doniger said she did not cognize if nan doors were locked aliases not, but nan section will beryllium reviewing its policies complete locking doors and moving engines.

Photos connected Facebook show immoderate of nan casualties of nan rampage. A bright yellowish Camaro has harm each down nan driver's side, pinch nan driver doorway tegument wholly ripped off. It belonged to John Wahleithner, who needed it to get to an upcoming room appointment. A adjacent Honda Civic's full trunk conception is gone. One of nan saddest victims is simply a classical Chevy pickup motortruck that appears to person been successful awesome information until nan beforehand and backmost sewage smashed in. Joseph Latshaw told Fox 13 he'd owned it for 35 years.