It’s a cold, winter night. It’s right around midnight. The first-arriving companies transmit a working fire in a three-story wood-frame building. The second-­arriving ladder faces many obstacles: ...

The Youtube channel FirstRespondersNY gives a look at Tower Ladder 161. The ladder is the oldest one active in FDNY, FirstRespondersNY reports. The Seagrave apparatus was purchased in 1999, operating ...

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The Monument Fire District has received a new ladder tower designed to better aid firefighters in their life and property-saving efforts. A ladder tower, also known as an aerial tower or elevating ...

With this installment in "The Apparatus Architect" series we begin our discussion on the design and use of aerial ladder units. These types of apparatus can represent one of the largest financial ...

BOSTON (CBS) – A fire truck ladder was safely removed from a home in Mattapan early Thursday morning, hours after it collapsed onto the triple decker. The tower ladder got stuck on the Duke Street ...

READING, Pa. — The Reading Fire Department received a delivery Thursday that was years in the making. A brand new, 93-foot tower ladder truck arrived at the Plum and Franklin streets station, and ...

MORNING. ROBIN, JULIAN. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, BILL. OMAHA FIREFIGHTERS GET SOME SERIOUS WATER POWER TO NEW TOWER. TOWER LADDER TRUCKS, INCLUDING THIS ONE. NUMBER 53, WILL SOON BE ON THE MOVE AS KETV ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- The I-Team is investigating major equipment that Chicago firefighters say is so old it puts them and the public at risk. They are startling figures: 40 percent of the city's fire ...