The Columbia Fire Department has ordered a replacement for an aerial ladder truck nearing the end of its frontline service life, but officials say the city will wait about three years for the new ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

NIOSH recommends that all fire departments utilizing aerial ladder trucks with locking (pin-anchored, lever actuated, clamped) waterways immediately take the following actions to reduce the risk of ...

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 ...

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 ...