EARLY, Texas — The Early Fire Department is hosting a "Push-in Ceremony" to celebrate the arrival of its first ladder truck. The ceremony will be on April 21 at 2 p.m. The fire department said ...

Richard Giannoccora with the Shaler Villa Volunteer Fire Company. The fire company's primary ladder truck broke and needs to be fixed. "Obviously those funds are very kind of critical for our ...

Lt. Mark Dranbauer, 44, was about halfway up the ladder when he was stricken, Baltimore Fire Chief James Wallace said.

Multiple agencies assisted with the firefight, including all six engines, a ladder truck and battalion chief from Santa Maria City Fire, an engine and battalion chief from Santa Barbara County ...

"I got candy and a bunch of little erasers... that's really cool!" Sherman firefighters were also on hand to drop plastic eggs from the top of a ladder truck.

The average cost for a fire truck a little more than a decade ago was $500,000. Today, that same truck will cost between $1 million and $2 million. The costs of equipment has increased as well.

Instead, crews attacked the fire from the outside and from up high using ladder trucks. By 12:30 p.m. Wednesday, the smoke had decreased to a low smolder, with firefighters occasionally spraying water ...