LOWELL — Ladder 4 has arrived. The $1 million dollar truck was on display on JFK Plaza last Tuesday, with its 100-foot steel aerial ladder extended toward the roofline of City Hall. The brand-new ...

The city is rolling out two new major pieces of equipment that demonstrate its commitment to public safety, efficient ...

One topic that I haven’t touched on in a while is design consideration of where to mount ladders on a pumper and aerial. First of all, according to NFPA 1901: Standard for Automotive Fire Apparatus, ...

Santa Barbara Fire Department’s new Pierce Arrow XT Aerial Ladder Truck is equipped with a 107-foot aerial ladder. (Courtesy photo) The Santa Barbara Fire Department (SBFD) has acquired a new Pierce ...

In the last installment of The Apparatus Architect (October 2003), we discussed the importance of planning and evaluation in the process of developing specifications for the purchase of a new ladder ...

Training without the risk of crashing, without injuries, and without causing damage. The advantages of a drive and control simulator are more than convincing: accidents on the simulator do not ...

Painesville City has announced the arrival of a new aerial ladder truck for the city’s fire department. Rather than engines that serve to put out fire exclusively, the aerial ladder truck is designed ...

The Elkhart Fire Department will soon be getting a new piece of firefighting equipment. It's a state-of-the-art aerial truck, used to fight large fires from above. Once equipped, city firefighters ...

PIEDMONT, Calif. (KTVU) - Firefighters in Piedmont are getting a new, much-needed tool: a state-of-the-art aerial ladder truck. The new truck is replacing their current one, which was 25 years old.

Fire protection in the City of Katy has reached new heights. At 2 p.m. on Dec. 6, the Katy Fire Department put in service its 107-foot aerial ladder truck which is based at Station 1, 1417 Ave. D in ...