Photo by Tom Shand This 1966 Maxim 100-foot midship aerial ladder operated by the Hellertown, PA, Fire Department is typical of the style of ladder truck from this era. While the apparatus has a ...

Lodi Fire Department acquires a new 2025 Pierce Ascendant ladder truck to enhance its firefighting capabilities.

City Council in March 1908, passed an ordinance to purchase a new fire fighting apparatus, a hook and ladder truck, at a cost of $5,500 from the Seagrave Aerial Fire Truck Co. in Ohio. Months later, ...

The truck was commissioned through a local E-One dealer, Premier Fire Apparatus Inc., of Lake Katrine, and was built at E-One’s facility in Ocala, Florida.

CALDWELL — The Caldwell Fire Department this week received a new ladder truck, which will replace the 1991 apparatus that was in its fleet.

These trucks maximize versatility and reduce the need for trucks with certain individualized capabilities. The other truck included in the package is the replacement of a ladder truck.

The department’s apparatus committee recommended the purchase of a tractor drawn aerial truck (TDA), with specifications including a 70-gallon compressed air foam system capable of extinguishing ...

JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ohio — The Wintersville Fire Department has added a new apparatus to its fleet that includes a 100-foot aerial ladder. The new truck will replace a used truck that has been ...

Six days before the accident, as the new truck was arriving, a Semmes fire captain warned via email that the brakes on the ladder truck were failing and urged extra caution in using the apparatus ...

Currently, Taunton Fire Department does not have a ladder company as it only has two firefighters staffing each ladder truck on any given shift, without a ranked company officer included.

The first hydraulic, all-metal aerial ladder truck was a three-section, 100-foot, tractor-drawn aerial produced by Peter Pirsch for the Melrose, MA, Fire Department in 1935.