Beagle to the point;as usual!
A further comment on the Green Godess and Health and Safety issues is that the said vehicle was never designed to attend fires as a first attendance machine! It meets none of the current structural safety requirements of modern vehicles. It would not, in fact, be allowed to be used as a front-line vehicle by any fire service anywhere, but it's OK to allow untrained and inexperienced servicemen and women to put their necks on the line.
The Godess is a remnant of the old Civil Defence structure and is a shifter of water in a reticulation sense rather than a high pressure pumper. The technology is steam-age by comparison. It is slow, unstable, and out of date.