This new interactive class combines an educational lecture with a hands-on experience. The classroom portion will discuss tower ladder operational tactics at various types of structures, forcible ...

It’s a cold, winter night. It’s right around midnight. The first-arriving companies transmit a working fire in a three-story wood-frame building. The second-­arriving ladder faces many obstacles: ...

The Youtube channel FirstRespondersNY gives a look at Tower Ladder 161. The ladder is the oldest one active in FDNY, FirstRespondersNY reports. The Seagrave apparatus was purchased in 1999, operating ...

The Monument Fire District has received a new ladder tower designed to better aid firefighters in their life and property-saving efforts. A ladder tower, also known as an aerial tower or elevating ...

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There are any number of questions that must be addressed by a department’s apparatus committee when beginning the process of developing requirements for a new aerial device. This can be daunting, ...

MORNING. ROBIN, JULIAN. ALL RIGHT. THANKS, BILL. OMAHA FIREFIGHTERS GET SOME SERIOUS WATER POWER TO NEW TOWER. TOWER LADDER TRUCKS, INCLUDING THIS ONE. NUMBER 53, WILL SOON BE ON THE MOVE AS KETV ...