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EXPLAINED: Check out these royal enfield based firefighting bikes | Vintage Vibes

As we all know, motorcycles are rad. Know what else is rad? Firefighters. Firefighters, fire apparatus (firetrucks to the uninitiated), fire-fighting equipment, Dalmations—all extremely rad. Now, what would happen if you combined the two? Well, you'd get something unfathomably rad like these Royal Enfield Himalayan-based fire rescue bikes!

Over in India, the Pimpri-Chinchwad Municipal Corporation fire department has ordered a set of three heavily-modified Himalayans built as fast-response fire apparatus. According to PCMC's chief fire officer Kiran Gawade, the bikes will serve two primary purposes—getting into tight spots like alleys and crowded slums where larger apparatus can't go, and traffic/crowd control at larger fires.

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