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What does TL stand for?

Turntable Ladder (on fire/rescue vehicles)


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Samples in periodicals archive:
We saw two firemen going up an enormous turntable ladder up to the seventh floor, peering with powerful search lights into various rooms there, and we then saw the firemen pulling away parts of the front of the hotel near where the bomb had exploded, presumably to get to the casualties more easily.
They watched the turntable ladder which is used to tackle high-rise blazes and carry crew members skywards, and saw firefighters and paramedics carrying out a rescue in a mock-up car crash.
Students were very pleased to have experience of aerial turntable ladder of 105 ft.
His coffin was draped in the Union Jack and carried on a turntable ladder, manned by fellow members of Ladywood Green Watch.
They had to retreat when the roof and the internal structure collapsed, but used a turntable ladder to resume their search.
The crew from Whitby were joined by firefighters from Scarborough, with the whole exercise involving eight firefighters, two fire appliances and a special turntable ladder.
When I joined in 1975 I was at first posted to Binley which at that time had two pumps and a 100ft turntable ladder.
London has 113 fire stations which share a total of 175 pumping appliances and 34 special appliances such as fire rescue units, turntable ladders, hydraulic platforms and control units.

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