Bombeiros de Leiria Defender Comando

History

Portugal's volunteer fire brigades (bombeiros voluntários) run Land Rover Defenders for forest-fire work and as command cars. The Wikimedia Commons photograph shows the Leiria brigade's Comando: a white Defender 90 station wagon, registration 11-41-JH, with a blue light bar on the roof, a black A-bar carrying two blue lamps ahead of the grille, BOMBEIROS in red on the rear quarters, the brigade's crest and COMANDO on the front doors and alloy wheels — the officer's vehicle from which incidents such as the summer forest fires of the Leiria pine forests are directed.

The registry's model is a white Defender 90 station wagon with the light bar, A-bar lamps, lettering and crest, alloys and Portuguese plates; in the game it carries water-pool pickups and the blue-light boost.

Imagery

Registry record

Manufacturer

Land Rover (Defender 90 station wagon)

Manufactured

Puma-era Defender 90; photographed 2010s

Modifier / coachbuilder

Bombeiros Voluntários de Leiria (livery and warning lights)

Engine type

Ford 2.4 L Duratorq TDCi turbo-diesel (not stated in the source)

Production run

Production variant; count unknown

Country of origin

United Kingdom

Operated in

Portugal

Status

in-service

Catalogue data

Record kind

Named model

Model line

Defender

Wheels

4

Nominal wheelbase

90″

Catalogue fields describe the vehicle's structure and body as this registry records it. They are not certified factory measurements, and no performance figures are published here.

Sources & citations

Researched sources

• File: Land Rover Defender, Bombeiros Voluntarios De Leiria, Comando.JPG ↗ — Wikimedia Commons (accessed 2026-09-11)

Catalogue references

• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land_Rover_Defender_,_Bombeiros_Voluntarios_De_Leiria,_Comando.JPG https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Land_Rover_Defender_,_Bombeiros_Voluntarios_De_Leiria,_Comando.JPG ↗