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TOWN OF JOHNSTOWN — An aging fire truck is transitioning to a new career in education at Hamilton-Fulton-Montgomery BOCES.
Joy said the trucks are able to go off-road and will also be used to respond to fires in the Santa Maria Riverbed. “We've had a lot of nuisance fires down there as well as medical responses down ...
HALIFAX COUNTY, Va. (WSET) — Former Clover Volunteer Fire Department Chief Bert Martin is recovering after his fire truck overturned while responding to a fire. The crash, which occurred Friday ...
PITTSFIELD — The fire department just added a bright red, 42,000-pound rookie to the team. On Friday morning, the Pittsfield Fire Department unveiled a brand-new 2025 Pierce Saber pumper fire truck at ...
A fire truck overturned Thursday morning along a highway in Laurens County, South Carolina. (Video from the scene above)Video from Sky 4 shows the Laurens County Fire Department truck overturned ...
The 2007 Freightliner fire truck has just over 19,000 miles on it and could be perfect for a construction or landscaping business, perhaps even a surprise Father's Day gift. The online auction ...
Two firefighters were injured after a fire truck overturned Monday in Surry County, according to Surry County EMS. It happened just after 10 a.m. in the 2000 block of Prison Camp Road involving ...
Increased cost of fire trucks. The department bought one of their trucks 10 years ago for $900,000. Their latest ones cost $2 million with a potential 4-year wait time to get.
ELKHART, Ind. (WSBT) — The Elkhart Fire Department celebrated the arrival of their new fire truck at Fire Station 4 on Thursday. To mark the event, one that only happens every 15 to 20 years ...
The Fire Apparatus Manufacturers’ Association reports that orders for new mainline fire trucks are up significantly—about 43% annually from 2021-2023 compared to 2011-2020.
Truck prices have doubled in the past decade, with ladder trucks now costing as much as $2 million each, while fire departments are facing backlogs as long as four years, said IAFF, which ...
Cities and their fire departments are feeling the strain as post-pandemic wait times and costs for new fire trucks have shot up—due in part to industry consolidation.