This has always been a concern with fire apparatus manufactures. Has to do with loose equipment on the outside of the apparatus. This is why you see more hose bed covers, and safety straps on truck now a days. Nothing worse that laying a 1000 feet of hose on the street.
MASSACHUSETTS WOMAN DIES AFTER BEING STRUCK BY RESPONDING APPARATUS HOSE LINE
Thursday, January 28, 2010
An 82-year-old woman who was struck by a hose line from the back of a Cambridge (MA) fire apparatus has died. She died today after that hose on the side of the Cambridge engine struck her on Tuesday.
The apparatus was responding to a call at about 1140 hours when one of the lines apparently slipped and then became dislodged - trailing behind the rig. When the engine company turned, the trailing hose struck the woman who was standing on the median island allowing the apparatus to pass.
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