"45 of the LA fire trucks have to return to the barn a day to recharge their electric batteries for 10 hours instead of just gassing up and fighting fires," a January 19, 2025 Facebook post said.

“From the outside it looks like a normal red fire truck,” Matt Stauber of Pierce Manufacturing said. A normal red fire truck saves lives, but with the Pierce Volterra electric pumper, crews ...

SOME OF THE WATER THAT WAS NECESSARY TO PUT ON THE FIRE TO EXTINGUISH IT QUICKLY FROZE ON THE ROAD. THE ROAD IS VERY ICY. THE TRUCKS WERE ABLE TO GET TRUCKS IN A PRETTY GOOD POSITION TO ATTACK THE ...

RIDGEVILLE, S.C. (WCSC) - A Ridgeville fire station is out of service after a fire left the building severely damaged and a truck destroyed. Dorchester County said fire rescue crews responded to a ...

TUCSON, Ariz. (KVOA) — One person was transported to the hospital with serious burn injuries after a food truck caught fire. Northwest Fire Department says they responded to the truck near ...

An offer to buy back or lease the fire trucks was turned down by the Department of Forestry, Fisheries & the Environment. Firefighting capabilities in many municipalities are hampered due to a ...

North Glengarry Fire Services is refreshing its fleet with the purchase of a one-tonne, 2024 pickup truck for $75,000 from a southern Ontario dealership. Township staff recommended the ...

Canberra’s green fire-fighting machines – a plug-in hybrid Rosenbauer and fully electric Volvo – are both out of action for repairs, according to the Emergency Services Agency (ESA). The German-built ...

A massive fire broke out in a truck carrying gas cylinders in the Ghaziabad district of Uttar Pradesh, resulting in a series of blasts, on Saturday. The incident occurred at Bhopura Chowk on ...

Before joining Raw Story, Brad Reed spent eight years writing about technology at BGR.com and Network World. Prior to that, he wrote freelance stories for political publications such as AlterNet ...

Raw video from an ARDOT camera shows a fireball in the cab of the Walmart truck: 40/29's Ka'Tani Gouch got video from the opposite side of the semis, providing another view of the fire: ...

WE HAVE NUMEROUS FIRE TRUCKS HERE. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT A LOT OF THAT DAMAGE WAS TO THAT TOP FLOOR. WE STILL HAVE FIREFIGHTERS UP THERE. THEY WERE WORKING ON PUTTING OUT SOME HOTSPOTS JUST A FEW ...