A FLEET of Green Goddess has arrived in Wiltshire in the event of a strike by firefighters.
Thirteen fire tenders are now at the Army base in Colerne and will be deployed if a strike takes hold.
A spokesman for the Colerne base, home to the 21st Signal Regiment, said: "The regiment here will not be manning the vehicles or undertaking fire fighting training. This is a simple contingency plan to put the fire tenders in convenient places around the country."
The Green Goddesses were first used by the Army to tackle fires in 1977, during the fire service's first national strike. It lasted nine weeks.
They are the oldest working fire engines in the western world. Built in 1953, the vehicles were designed to provide a simple fire engine that could be used by untrained civilians in the wake of nuclear war.
The Army is training 650 soldiers nationwide in fire fighting.
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