COBI RAM 3500 Fire Truck Set 24612

COBI's RAM 3500 Fire Truck is a 1:35 model built from 358 blocks, 20.5 cm long, with a hose and pump on the bed, side compartments with hinged doors, opening rear doors, rotating wheels on rubber tires, and a firefighter figure with helmet and extinguisher.

A brush truck

A fire engine on a pickup chassis is not a scaled-down version of the big one. It is a different tool, and in American service it has a name: a brush truck, or a Type 6 engine.

Full-size fire apparatus weighs upwards of fifteen tonnes and needs a road. Wildland fires do not happen on roads. A brush truck is light enough to drive across open country, carries a few hundred gallons rather than a few thousand, and is built to keep pumping while it moves — spraying from a nozzle on the front as the driver works along the edge of a fire.

The compartments along the sides are the other half of the job. Rural departments are often the first vehicle at a road accident, a medical call or a flood, so the same truck carries cutting tools, medical equipment and lights. The small departments that run them frequently own nothing else.

In the COBI range

One of three RAM 3500 service vehicles at 1:35, with the ambulance (24609) and the tow truck (24611).

Specifications

Pieces: 358 · Figures: 1 firefighter · Scale: 1:35 · Also included: hose, pump, opening compartments
Model dimensions: 20.5 × 8 × 6.5 cm (8.1 × 3.1 × 2.6 in)