Ambulance explodes in front of firefighters - GIF

Ambulance explodes in front of firefighters in Germany.

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Previously:

https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...572#post139467
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...668#post190027
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...253#post188405
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...422#post154672
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...861#post167675

When reading the title, my first thought was how the heck would a... oooohhh, oxygen bottles!

Looks like they may have lost a couple of firefighters there, too.

I wonder if that was a Merc Ambo? There were a series of Merc Ambo fires in the UK ~10 years ago, all put down to diesel engine system failures IIRC. I know we hated Merc chassis based Ambo's 25 years ago whilst crewing them, had to be run-in for 10-15K miles on 'slow' work before going onto the front-line emergency work as the engines were prone to failure if not treated gently to start with, still a number blew up in use, quality German engineering my arse.