Fire engines and fire trucks often get lumped together in everyday conversation, yet on the fireground they serve very different purposes. That distinction shapes how departments buy equipment, train ...

Walking into the truck bays in the center of the Westminster Volunteer Fire Company, Dan Plunkert, the company’s president, stopped behind a massive red fire truck. The truck, called a tower engine, ...

Two more fire engines and a new ladder truck will soon roll out to fire stations across the city. The upcoming delivery of those vehicles, planned for the summer, was celebrated during Tuesday’s ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) — The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas (UG), has filed a federal class action lawsuit alleging the nation’s largest fire truck manufacturers ...

Rising costs and long manufacturing delays are making fire trucks more difficult than ever to replace. That’s pushing the Charlotte Fire Department “dangerously close” to service disruptions, ...