This is a vehicle that would be very useful in Canada and coast to coast at this time. ford just introduced a new version of it Bronco Badlands through the organization Bronco Wild Fund. This organization is already on its second vehicle fighting forest fires. On this subject, we remember the 2020 partnership between Ford and Filton and the formation of 2 Broncos dedicated to fighting wildfires in the Seattle area.

Here we are three years later with a new project that uses the exact same concept. Ford donates a Bronco Badlands equipped with the Sasquatch accessory kit to the Bronco Wild Fund. The organization will convert it into a vehicle that can provide targeted assistance in a forest fire. This time it’s Park Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico that will receive the two specimens of this new creation.

We know the main features of the Badlands equipped with the Sasquatch set. The vehicle gets 17-inch wheels with 35-inch tires, raised suspension, self-locking differentials and generous skid plates. To tweak the Bronco, the manufacturer turned to equipment supplier Darley, who added a front winch, roof basket, front roll cage, roof light and emergency bars, and a communications system compatible with instruments used by government emergency agencies. In order to ensure the quality of the communication, the transmission takes place via satellite.

Numerous conversions are also taking place in the passenger compartment, as demonstrated by the integration of an iPad-like tablet on a tripod. The latter serves in particular to broadcast the images from the assistance drone contained in the vehicle.

Of course, Bandelier National Monument Superintendent Patrick Suddath is delighted with these gifts from the Bronco Wild Fund: “I would like to thank Ford for this generous donation. Over the past 20 years, warmer temperatures and stronger winds have resulted in larger fires that are harder to predict and fight. »

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Donations of this kind by an automobile manufacturer are not uncommon in the USA. It’s a great marketing campaign, of course, but the vehicles are actually used in the field, making the gesture honorable. My question is straight to the point Ford of Canada. Without reducing the problem of wildfires south of the border, all of Canada is burning this year, we even feel it daily. Americans even openly blame us on newspaper headlines for the poor quality of their air. So why was this kind of donation exceptionally not made to one or the other fire department in Canada?