Comment by adolph

An interesting aspect of this story is that America has an idiosyncratic approach toward firefighting vehicles that demands very large bespoke vehicles from a limited set of vendors [0] that are primarily used to bring a set of first responders to medical emergencies. [1] This philosophy carries on to other aspects of fire fighting like the very famous wooden ladders of San Francisco. [1]

Cost insensitive customers with bizarre business requirements, what could go wrong?

0. https://www.slashgear.com/1890538/why-american-fire-trucks-b...

1. https://www.pulsara.com/blog/why-does-911-send-a-fire-truck-...

2. https://sf-fire.org/our-organization/division-support-servic...