We live in a FIRE ENGINE after turning a red truck into a tiny home – it even comes with a double bed & kitchen | The Sun

A COUPLE has revealed how they converted an old fire engine into a mobile tiny home – complete with a double bed and fully-functional kitchen.

The big red truck is even designed to run on waste vegetable oil – and is affectionately known as the BEV, the biosphere emergency vehicle.

Musician Charlie McGee revealed he purchased the discontinued fire truck in around 2018, before he had met his partner Brenna Quinlan.

Charlie ripped the vehicle's back out to install a box-like interior, to make a tiny home – which he constructed almost exclusively out of recycled materials.

In a video, the Australian pair take viewers on a tour of the remarkably spacious converted truck – which even has room for a fold-down deck that Charlie uses as a stage when he plays music.

Brenna begins by revealing how the truck's double bed, tucked into a wooden nook, also doubles as a musical instrument and laptop-storage space.

"We've got our music set-up, our teaching set-up, our art set-up all in one package that we take around with us like our snail shell," she says.

Beside the nook, she points out a wooden desk, where illustrator Brenna can make her art – as well as a kitchenette with a fully-functioning gas stove, a deep fridge, and running water.

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But the couple confess showering is a little trickier – with the pair usually relying on either stopping at a place with bathing facilities, or wild swimming to keep clean.

And while BEV's electricity runs on solar power – and drives using waste vegetable oil as fuel – the truck does have one hitch.

The couple sources the waste oil from "the back of fish and chip shops or restaurants or fast food joints – so it's pretty much free most of the time," Charlie reveals.

But the oil situation can get sticky, with the musician admitting: "It's a very greasy, messy lifestyle.

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"The exhaust smells like fish and chips."

And asking eateries to use their run-off oil can lead to some funny looks – meaning Charlie has given up asking straight.

"'Sometimes explaining less works better – because if I start telling people that my truck runs on veggie oil they're like, 'what?!'"

Charlie and Brenna also do not live in their firetruck tiny home all year round.

Charlie says: "Bev is our part-time residence. We spend the other six months of the year living at my tiny house on a permaculture property.

"When we're teaching or playing gigs or generally on the road, this is our home."

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