There are potential safety issues surrounding those old fire trucks after two of them broke down this week, as both were not ...

Fire departments across our hometowns are responding to calls with aging equipment that can be older than the firefighters driving it. That's thanks to a national fire truck shortage that's directly ...

And one that they say is long overdue. Tuscumbia Fire just received a new fire engine. It’s the first one they’ve been able ...

After replacing an ambulance in 2018, the township next turned its attention toward replacing a 1988 tanker that was in ...

No Oregon fire trucks have been turned away or delayed from helping fight the wildfires in Los Angeles due to emissions tests — despite what many people have read on social media, California and ...

In 2020, when the Foxborough Fire Department wanted to purchase an engine pumper truck, they found a vendor and agreed to pay $625,000 for it to be delivered within 18 months. The department’s Motor ...

As wildfires raged in Los Angeles in January, the mayor and the fire chief came under intense criticism for their actions or inactions, as if one decision or inaction could have extinguished the ...

To say that what the fire service is experiencing now when it comes to apparatus purchasing is unprecedented is an understatement, but one that should be put in perspective. Fire apparatus ...

The Oregon state fire marshal took to social media this week to dispel rumors circulating online about its firefighters being turned away from helping battle the wildfires in Southern California.On ...

Each kind of commercial and emergency vehicle follows a certain color code or symbol. For instance, you will find a snake symbol on almost all ambulances, and the color of the school buses is always ...

Dozens of fire-fighting vehicles from Oregon were turned away from helping to fight L.A. wildfires in January 2025 because they didn't meet California’s smog-certification standards. According to ...