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Figure 10.13: (a) A 2-ton four-wheel drive fire truck at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (1993). (b) ‘Daisy’, a four-wheel drive articulating diesel fire truck, at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (1994). (c) A Gama Goat six-wheel drive fire truck at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (1998). Photographs (a–c) courtesy of Harvey Payne. (d) A 2.5-ton six-wheel drive military truck converted to a fire truck at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (2008). Note the man (‘gunner’) standing on the front platform of the truck, directing the output of the water sprayer. (e) A 5-ton six-wheel drive military truck converted to a fire truck at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (2020). Note the high-tech spray nozzle mounted on the front of the truck, which is operated from within the cab by the driver (no second ‘gunner’ person is needed on the front of the truck to direct the water spray). (f) HEMMT surplus military 10-ton eight-wheel drive fire truck at the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (2020). (g) Oshkosh 10-ton eight-wheel drive fire truck at Tallgrass Prairie Preserve (2020).