A lot of more rural areas such as the Sonoma area may not have a type 1 or type 2 engine. A lot of them may just have type 3s or barely have any type 1s. I am proposing that perhaps the wildland engines can count as regular engines, because large agencies like Calfire do not normally have type 1s or type 2s unless under county contract. They respond to structure fires with their brush rigs. In my county, the volunteer departments use their brush rigs to respond to most fires or emergencies where they are needed, so it would really help if at least some of the wildland rigs could count as a standard engine for calls. I know there’s equipment I could’ve added to type 1 or type 2 engines, but it feels wrong using equipment instead of actually getting the extension. I don’t know if you guys could relate, but that just how I feel on that. But, on that note, all I want is for wildland fire engines to count as type 1s or type 2s for regular missions.
Count Wildland engines as standard engines
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A lot of more rural areas such as the Sonoma area may not have a type 1 or type 2 engine. A lot of them may just have type 3s or barely have any type 1s. I am proposing that perhaps the wildland engines can count as regular engines, because large agencies like Calfire do not normally have type 1s or type 2s unless under county contract. They respond to structure fires with their brush rigs. In my county, the volunteer departments use their brush rigs to respond to most fires or emergencies where they are needed, so it would really help if at least some of the wildland rigs could count as a standard engine for calls. I know there’s equipment I could’ve added to type 1 or type 2 engines, but it feels wrong using equipment instead of actually getting the extension. I don’t know if you guys could relate, but that just how I feel on that. But, on that note, all I want is for wildland fire engines to count as type 1s or type 2s for regular missions.
I agree, any type engine should be able to assist in structure and auto fires as in real life. I have a friend who's with USFS and she's captain on a type four out of Idaho when they responded to So-Cal for MA they had come across 2 different auto fires along the way.
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Type 3 does count as a regular engine, the rest currently do not
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Type 3 does count as a regular engine, the rest currently do not
I believe SA is talking about realistically playing as I am talking about it
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