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“Get with Ladder 21, if you need to be in the bucket, put your eyes on whatever you need to see, determine if there’s a hazard where their apparatus is in position,” a chief advises.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A 20-year veteran of the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department has died, the agency said in a release Saturday. Engineer Heath J. O’Shea was 44. O’Shea was assigned to ...
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — The Jacksonville Sheriff's Office is responding to a reported crash involving a Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department ladder truck at N. Main Street and Tallulah Avenue. A ...
Five firefighters with Ladder 30 talked about the night their training was put into action saving a man who drove off the Dames Point Bridge.
Jun. 16—POTTSVILLE — The city's tallest ladder fire truck is expected back in service soon after possible repairs following a recent training accident. The Phoenix Hook & Ladder Company tiller ...
With the support of a search committee, Fire Chief Michael Howard shared the department’s plans for the purchase of a new tiller type aerial ladder truck. In his monthly report to the Board of ...
The unit carries the following ladders: 35-foot extension, four 28-foot extension, four 24-foot extension, a 20-foot roof, three 16-foot roof and two 10-foot folding ladders for a total of 331 feet.