Best known for the invention of the world's first all-powered aerial lader, the Pirsch Companmy also produced a variety of highly regarded fire trucks.

From hand-drawn ladder wagons in the 1800's to modern day diesel owered pumpersand aerial ladders, the factory produced thousands of trucks for fire departments, military and private fire brigades all over the world.

See photos of some of Pirsch's unique apparatus, including a pumper built to travel on railroad tracks and a huge smoke ejector built on a custom built chassis.