It is always kept filled with water. The pumper truck can pump the water from this pond so the tanker truck can leave to get more water. This truck has a very long ladder on top. The ladder is about 100 feet long. At the end of the ladder is a bucket for firefighters and arson dogs like me to get to the top of a building.
Ladder trucks are much longer than pumpers or tankers.
A ladder truck can be 40 to 50 feet long. Here I am in a bucket with a Lake Placid firefighter, Randi Shadic, and Rogo. This bucket has a nozzle that can be hooked up to a tanker truck to pump water onto a roof or into the window of high buildings. Click on this picture if you want to see a bigger picture. Remember to click the back button of your browser to get back to this page.