Amid the deadly wildfires in Southern California, posts claimed the Los Angeles Fire Department was hindered by electric ...

The department acquired the electric fire engine, manufactured by the Austria-based firm Rosenbauer, in 2022 (archived here) and it is used by Station 82 in Hollywood. "The truck has an onboard ...

The claim is almost entirely false. The LAFD has only one electric fire truck in its fleet, the Rosenbauer RTX, which it acquired in May 2022. The electric firefighting vehicle does not need to be ...

the Rosenbauer America RTX program manager, told The Dispatch Fact Check. McBride explained that the electric fire truck remains plugged in and charged at the fire station when not responding to a ...

Canberra's green fire-fighting machines - a plug-in hybrid Rosenbauer and fully electric Volvo - are both out of action ...

A spokesperson for the fire department told Lead Stories the claim is false. The department's single electric fire engine was acquired in 2022.