Orange cab-over rescue truck

An orange heavy truck head-on, lights going, with a burning car in front of it: a cab-over front end filling the windscreen we look through, and no word anywhere on it.

A cab-over front end, filling the middle of the windscreen we are looking through. The cab sits directly above the front axle, there is no bonnet in front of the glass, and the windscreen is one deep pane divided down the middle by a bolted post, with the pale shapes of sun visors inside it. The nose below the glass is orange, and two raised louvred vents run across its upper surface.

Below that the front is one wide dark panel of horizontal slats, the full width of the vehicle, with lines of bolt heads down the vertical frames that divide it. Two blue strobes are set into the slats and both are firing. Across the roof runs a light bar, blue at its left end, red and amber through the middle, with a pair of amber beacons at the right; at the bottom centre, under the slats, a towing shackle hangs on the bumper.

The right third of the crop is washed out by flame: the car in front of it is on fire, and the fire is throwing orange back onto the truck's own orange paint, so the two are hard to separate at the edge. A blurred hand and forearm at the top left belong to whoever is at the wheel of the car we are looking out of. Which service the truck belongs to is not written anywhere on this face of it.

GTA 5 had heavy cab-over trucks in two services that fit this front, the Fire Truck and the armoured Riot of the police, and both carried their lettering on the flank, which is exactly the side this frame does not show. That is a comparison of outlines and nothing more.

How to recognise it

• Cab-over layout: the cab sits over the front axle with no bonnet ahead of the glass
• One deep windscreen divided down the middle by a bolted post
• Two raised louvred vents across the orange nose
• A full-width dark grille of horizontal slats with bolt heads on the vertical frames
• Two blue strobes set into the grille slats, both firing
• Roof light bar with blue, red and amber segments plus amber beacons at the right end
• A towing shackle on the bumper at bottom centre

The frame it comes from

The frame is Trailer 2 at 1:57.93. It is 3840 by 2160, and the vehicle occupies 710 by 723 of it. Also in it: a police car mid-explosion and a police cruiser.

How this was measured

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What we still do not know

• What service it belongs to. A red-and-blue bar with amber beacons fits fire and rescue and it fits a heavy recovery unit; nothing in frame decides between them.
• Everything behind the cab. The body, the bed and whatever equipment it carries are all out of the crop.
• Any lettering. A vehicle like this normally carries a department name along the side, and the side is not in this shot.
• Everything measured: top speed, handling, where it spawns