A fire crew is watching as occasional fires burn on a hill through lightning that moves along Marsh Creek Road in Brentwood, California, on Monday, August 17, 2020.
For $17,000, a Japanese Toyota Hilux chimney truck imported from 1995 is possibly yours.
“This specific unit includes a ladder and hose shelves, a sliding pump tray in bed, a cargo cart and two locations on the driver’s side,” says one of the many on Craigslist right now, which sells trucks with a fireplace in California.
The devastating 2020 wildfires, caused by a ruthless dry lightning typhoon in August amid a wave of dizzying heat, burned more than a million acres of California, and the state’s chimney departments have dangerously depleted firefighters, trucks, and other resources.
It’s not unexpected that concerned citizens are starting to take a look at the protection for DIY chimney locations, however, the chimney truck market on Craigslist right now is unprecedented.
NPR reports that a Sacramento company called Vans From Japan is gaining merit by buying trucks in Japan and making money promoting them in California, and are Craigslist to unload vehicles.
Beyond imported trucks, other offerings on the site lately come with a 2013 Peterbilt tanker that can carry 2,500 gallons of water to a chimney and “meet all Cal Fire specifications.” This Pacifica vendor costs $ 69,000.
At a more moderate price, a “type 6 truck instead of fire” is presented in Napa for $17,500, equipped with a Hale pump and sixty meters of inflexible hose with a nozzle.The dealership reveals: “I bought two of those trucks that were maintained as reserve sets for the arrangement of lime chimney site …but I just want one.”
A salesman expects to get $15,000 for a 150-year-old Ford 150 chimney truck.He admits that he “said the bomb needed gaskets,” but warned that “with those complex ray chimneys, maybe I can use them.”
In recent years, as forest chimneys have become more common, there has also been an increase in the small but developing number of thriving citizens renting personal chimney equipment to monitor their acres.
Cal Fire discouraged attempts to protect its assets by means of an evacuation order.”People don’t perceive the veracity of those chimneys we’ve been dealing with for about five years,” Captain Scott McLean of Cal Fire Fire told SFGATE.unpredictable and you can’t assign what the chimney will do.”
As wildfires are a recurring crisis in California due to warming temperatures, the housing structure on the forest-urban interface, and the effects of climate change, citizens who choose to have their own fire-extinguishing cars inside can succeed on their driveways.
Andrew Chamings is editor of SFGATE. Email: [email protected] Twitter: @AndrewChamings