Inside the fire service, repeated short horn bursts are often tied to evacuation or urgent hazard warnings, especially on ...

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

The city council approved the funds for the purchase of a $2.7 million fire truck, a first of its kind for the city. The 8-1 vote was taken at the council meeting on Monday. The fire truck will be a ...

Local fire departments are facing unprecedented delays for new equipment as a nationwide backlog forces them to wait years.

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

The CBS News California Investigates team recently obtained new data from the LAFD that shows more than 100 trucks were out ...