Santa Maria firefighters putting their new ladder truck through its paces during a demo for local news media. (Janene Scully / Noozhawk photo) Santa Maria has a huge new tool in its arsenal for ...

HOLDEN, LA — May 14, 2018 — Ferrara, a leading manufacturer of custom built, heavy-duty fire apparatus, is introducing a new line of aerial ladders and platforms to meet the rigorous demands of the ...

In recent years, there has been an escalation of responding fire apparatus crashing into each other and in the past few weeks it has gotten even worse. In this column, we have always tried to be ...

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 ...

On June 3, 2017, a 29-year-old career fire fighter fell carrying a “roof kit” (two six-foot trash hooks strapped together with webbing for shoulder carry) up an aerial ladder during a training ...

KILLEEN, Texas (KWTX) - According to Nicole Shoemaker, a firefighter and driver with Killeen fire department that is training people how to operate an aerial ladder truck, there is more to operating ...

The Purdue University Fire Department recently placed a new aerial fire truck into service. Ladder 12 is a 2019 Pierce Ascendant 107 and replaces the existing aerial truck, a 1996 Simon LTI. The new ...