Fire Truck

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A Fire Truck in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

The Fire Truck (or Firetruck) is a general purpose fire truck equipped with a water cannon. The Fire Truck has appeared in every GTA game.

Description

The Fire Truck is depicted in every appearance as a large truck-based vehicle with a predominantly red paintjob, long chassis and bulky design, evidently to contain firefighting equipment. Being an emergency vehicle, the vehicle has a good top speed, however its weight gives it poor-to-moderate acceleration, and poor handling. In most GTA games, the Fire Truck spawns where large fires or explosions have occurred. Since GTA III, Fire Trucks may be found at fire stations as well.

GTA 1—GTA 2

Prior to GTA III, the Fire Truck's main virtues are its large size and weight, which make the vehicle resilient to damage and difficult for most other cars to ram off-course.

GTA 1 features two variants of the Fire Truck, with one appearing in Liberty City and Vice City, and the other exclusive to San Andreas. In GTA 2, the water cannon was introduced, and serves as a passive weapon which pushes (human) targets back using a gush of water. A Fire Truck with a mounted flamethrower may also be unlocked by completing the Wang Cars side quest.

GTA III—GTA Vice City Stories

The GTA III Era Fire Truck can reach high speeds and has good acceleration, however the resulting lack of traction in such a heavy vehicle makes it susceptible to oversteer and spinning. Like Police Cars and Ambulances, it is equipped with sirens that make traffic move out of the way. Its hose can be used to spray pedestrians, knocking them down. The player can activate Firefighter missions with the Fire Truck.

The fire trucks in the GTA III era are numbered 1 to 6, and there is also an unnumbered one. In GTA San Andreas, a second Fire Truck variant exists, equipped with a ladder but not a water cannon; this variant does not allow the player to trigger the firefighting side-mission. The ladder variant of the truck is prominently featured during the second half of the mission "End of the Line".

In GTA III, GTA Vice City, GTA Liberty City Stories, and GTA Vice City Stories, the Fire Truck is based on a Pierce Contender, with the front resembling a Seagrave Marauder. In GTA San Andreas, the standard Fire Truck resembles a Crimson Spartan; the ladder variation is based on a Pierce Arrow.

GTA IV

In GTA IV The MTL "V 24 Supercharged" Pumper serves as the FDLC's standard firefighting apparatus, equipped with a high powered deck mounted water cannon. Every fire truck is numbered 69, unlike previous games where they were pseudo-individually numbered.

The Fire Truck can be found at fire stations, but is rarely seen driving around, even with a fire in the vicinity; they can, however, be summoned by dialling 911 and requesting the fire emergency service. Firemen are apparently not coded to put out fires at all, even when called to existing fires—the fireman complain about "another prank call", as they usually do upon being summoned, and depart. If the player fires the Fire Truck's water cannon at any vehicle (excluding police), the driver will brake, and then either ram the truck, or get out and attempt to pull Niko out of the truck. If the police see the player "attacking" cars or people with the hose, a one-star wanted level is given, and if the player hits the police cars with the hose, two wanted stars are given.

The front of the Fire Truck resembles a Pierce Dash, while the cab and rear resemble some Seagrave models.

Firefighter side-mission

Main article: Firefighter

The Firefighter side mission can be toggled on or off from within a Fire Truck in all GTA III Era games. The mission requires the player to find and extinguish burning vehicles within a time limit. This side-mission is not available in GTA IV.

Locations

In every game except GTA IV, starting a fire will see the fire department send a Fire Truck to put it out. The Fire Truck also spawns at the following locations:

GTA III, GTA Advance and GTA Liberty City Stories

GTA Vice City and GTA Vice City Stories

GTA San Andreas

GTA IV


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