fire truck

(Newser) - Pumper vehicles and tiller apparatuses are terms that likely won't mean much to you. To the mayor of Carmel, Ind., they mean a lot. They're both types of firetrucks, and in Sue Finkam's telling, they've gotten harder and pricier to obtain. She says the estimated price...

(Newser) - The University of Connecticut community is reeling after a 19-year-old sophomore was struck and killed by a campus fire truck early Sunday, reports the Hartford Courant . Jeffny Pally was sitting up against a garage bay door at a fire station on the Storrs campus around 1:15am when the door...

(Newser) - A city policy stating that firefighters must "operate apparatus in a way that does not compromise the reputation of the department" means city fire trucks don't belong in porn films, insist Los Angeles officials. Authorities are probing reports that firefighters allowed porn producers to use fire trucks in...

(Newser) - A broken water pipe in a Los Angeles neighborhood today created a sinkhole that swallowed one of the city’s fire trucks, KTLA-TV reports. The crew, responding to the break just after 5am, felt the street buckle beneath the 42,000-pound truck; it gave way before they could back out....