Crash Truck Dash Cam #2: AA 383 Engine Fire at O’Hare

Note the tilt alarm shrieking on every gentle turn, and welcome to a reality of these real-life monster trucks: they roll. Physics is very unfriendly to high center-of-gravity vehicles full of sloshing water, particularly when combined with an adrenaline-fueled driver experiencing the tunnel vision that can set in when a call comes through. (A common theme in NTSB interviews: firefighters don’t remember hearing the tilt alarm.) Did I mention that crash trucks often have a curb weight in excess of 100,000 po
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