Like a great movie screenplay that deserves a sequel, this month we are going to return to visit with the Hollywood Volunteer Fire Department in Saint Mary's County, MD to review their 2009 Pierce ...

The fire service enjoys many proud traditions dating back to when steamers were horse drawn and ladder trucks carried buckets, hooks and an assortment of heavy, wooden ground ladders. Over the years ...

Chico >> The Chico Fire Department’s new $1.28 million truck is more maneuverable and faster to set up than the old ladder truck. It’s also about 15 feet longer. With an articulating rear-end, the ...

Yakima firefighter Andrey Belza likes riding in the back of the department’s ladder truck. Way back. How far back? Nearly 62 feet from the front seat. As one of the department’s tiller drivers, he’s ...

Hook-and-ladder. Ladder truck. That fire truck with the guy who sits in the back. You've probably called a tiller truck and tiller driver one of those things, and we all know what you were taking ...

When Middletown got a new American LaFrance fire truck in 1931, the city was a different place: The Arrigoni Bridge didn’t exist, the 1899 firehouse was still fairly modern, and a local factory’s ...