The Z8 Airport Crash Tender fire engine is based on an 8 x 8 chassis with a V12 diesel engine delivering 1,000 metric horsepower and has nozzles for spraying water and foam to defend itself against approaching fire.
A modern fire engine carries more than just a pump, ladders, and fire hoses. It also contains a distributed multiprocessor data center. The Z8 Airport Crash Tender from Albert Ziegler GmbH, which has manufactured firefighting equipment since 1890, is used at commercial and military airports in Stuttgart (as shown in Figure 1), Zurich, and other places around world.
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