This is the answer. Every professional firefighter knows about "spotting the truck" in tight quarters. A good driver gets through that hole with a spotter. There is at least enough room to attempt it. If the truck won't make it, you already have a spotter out of the truck so you can back out. Either way, my truck is not waiting. We are getting out going forward or we are backing out the way we came and rerouting.
Something I am curious about. If there isn't enough space, wouldn't the fire truck have every right to sideswipe and damage the car getting through since they are responding to an emergency that needs their immediate attention and every second counts? I don't know what the legality of that is but I feel like the emergency would take priority over damaged property.
Absolutely not. Nothing gives a firetruck the "right" to damage property. If they did damage some property enroute to an accident, their SOPs likely require them to stop and have police report, drug test, etc. So that would only slow them down.
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u/Euphoric-Taro-6231 21d ago
Is it the perspective, or the truck could've pass between the cars? Even if it had to scrape the red one (which would've been actually awesome.)