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Fire trucks have the word FIRE written two ways, as seen here, on the front of the truck. Why is that?

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The word FIRE is sometimes written in Spanish and English, or English and other languages, so foreigners can know what the word is in their language.
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probably to show others who are foreigners seeing the fire truck name as that from another country

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