Forklift moves burning van from riots - GIF

**Jon** · Feb 2, 2019, 11:53 AM

Forklift moves burning van from riots in France. All does not go well. This reminds me of the more properly modified riot control heavy equipment we looked at previously.

Previously:

Skid steer modified into riot control vehicle
Railroad bridge catches fire and collapses - GIF and photo
Fire bomber plane puts out truck fire - GIF, photos, and video
Tractor cuts line in field to stop encroaching fire - GIF
Two-headed fire truck - photo
Invisible methanol fire in 1981 Indy 500

**Frank S** · Feb 2, 2019, 06:30 PM

You wouldn't think that no more than the boom was extended that the weight of the van would have been enough o do that.
Most high reach forklifts that size can lift 2.5 tons but that weight is greatly reduced the further away from the machine it goes But I've seen them on job sites raising at least half their rated cap all the way to full extension and reaching far out from the machine.
this one was hardly extended at all

**fishtownmike** · Feb 2, 2019, 09:29 PM

Unless it was right next to an orphanage or something like that I see no reason to move it at all.

**Radioman** · Feb 3, 2019, 04:26 AM

Was this a bad guy driving the lift? As it looked to me the fork driver did more harm than good? There was all kinds of safe spots to set the van down but the driver rams a bridge as a better option?