Check out the video, right here: Mid-way through last year Cat re-launched, or rethought, one of its most popular dozers. And it’s a model so important that just more than one year later ...

the Caterpillar D8R dozer has been converted and reinforced for fighting wildland fires in L.A. County. The 395-horsepower D8R dozer weighs 93,000 pounds with a blade that measures 16-feet across.

The world’s second-largest seaborne exporter of steelmaking coal, Teck currently operates significant numbers of Cat dozers, each of which logs up to 7,000 operating hours annually in the mines.