Chief Eric Smith recently reported that the Gloucester Fire Department will take part in an aerial ladder truck training. All 48 Gloucester firefighter ranked personnel have been divided into three ...

Training without the risk of crashing, without injuries, and without causing damage. The advantages of a drive and control simulator are more than convincing: accidents on the simulator do not ...

The Dracut Fire Department has deployed its new Tower 1 truck during intensive tactical training on Lakeview Avenue this week, aiming to enhance firefighter safety and operational effectiveness.

A quick training video on positioning the aerial ladder The Fire Minute Simple concept with the aerial that starts with truck placement, can provide some big benefits, and options. What do you call ...

Two firefighters were ejected from the rescue basket of an aerial ladder from the Kiel Professional Fire Department in Germany Thursday morning. The firefighters were training on skills for aerial ...

The New Kensington fire department hoped to have its aerial ladder truck back in service by the end of last week, fire Chief Ed Saliba Jr. said Wednesday. After that, the job became figuring out how ...

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Who is coming to the fire? For most of us not in an urban setting, we are not fortunate enough to have a full complement of firefighters on any of our apparatus, especially our aerial trucks. On the ...