Firexpress BMW R1200RT arrives in Greece

While we don’t expect motorcycles to supplant trucks as the main vehicle of fire departments worldwide, they can provide a handy fast response alternative. No vehicle can carve through traffic with the speed of a bike, even a big one like the BMW R1200RT, so they can arrive on the scene of a fire and begin fighting it long before the more powerful truck can. Imagine a car fire at the head of a long traffic jam on a crowded highway and you can understand how speed saves.
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