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 ...

Founded by the Mack brothers in 1900 in Brooklyn, New York, Mack Trucks is one of the oldest truck manufacturing companies in the United States. Mack's wide range of specialized trucks are renowned ...

Each kind of commercial and emergency vehicle follows a certain color code or symbol. For instance, you will find a snake symbol on almost all ambulances, and the color of the school buses is always ...

To say that what the fire service is experiencing now when it comes to apparatus purchasing is unprecedented is an understatement, but one that should be put in perspective. Fire apparatus ...

In the summer of 2023, a third of the fire engines owned by the fire department in Kansas City, Kansas, were unusable. Five ...

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, ...

United States Attorney General Pam Bondi and Federal Trade Commission Chair Andrew Ferguson have a new letter on their desk. It’s from the International Association of Fire Fighters as well as the ...

Facebook Marketplace never ceases to surprise me. You can shop for anything on Marketplace, from power tools, to furniture, to cars, and even massive 8×8 articulating off-road fire trucks. So in the ...

The American LaFrance Corporate Collection is being auctioned off by RM Sotheby's on Friday in Miami. The listings include 15 vehicles spanning nearly 100 years, from early hand-drawn wagons to ...

In the garage of the UN Headquarters in New York sits a unique vehicle: the only fire truck in the United States with diplomatic plates. It also can't do its job. "It is one of the only fire trucks in ...