With its latest acquisition – a 1995 95-foot Seagrave Tower Ladder – the Exeter Township Fire Department has prepared itself for the expected growth of the township over the next 15 years. The ...

Aerial fire-apparatus manufacturer Ladder Tower in Ephrata is being sold as part of a $36.3 million transaction, it was announced Tuesday. Ladder Tower’s owner, Smeal Fire Apparatus, has agreed to be ...

Aerial and elevating platform apparatus of all kinds represent some of the most expensive pieces of equipment that we operate in the fire service. Yet, at the same time, they tend to be the most under ...

The Monument Fire District has received a new ladder tower designed to better aid firefighters in their life and property-saving efforts. A ladder tower, also known as an aerial tower or elevating ...

This new interactive class combines an educational lecture with a hands-on experience. The classroom portion will discuss tower ladder operational tactics at various types of structures, forcible ...

What is a good way to tell whether a department and/or company is operating efficiently? The answer: ladder placement. What is ladder placement? It’s the positioning of a ladder where it can be used ...

On April 20, 2017, a 42-year-old male career fire fighter from Tower Ladder 135 died after being ejected from the platform of a tower ladder. At 1420 hours, the fire department dispatched Battalion 44 ...

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BOSTON (CBS) – A fire truck ladder was safely removed from a home in Mattapan early Thursday morning, hours after it collapsed onto the triple decker. The tower ladder got stuck on the Duke Street ...