HAWKINS COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) – A Hawkins County volunteer fire department is down its most vital fire truck and some equipment after a Thanksgiving crash. The Carters Valley Volunteer Fire Department’s six-man, 1500-gallon fire engine was involved in a crash on Surgoinsville Creek Road on Thanksgiving. Fire Chief Paul Cappello said crews were returning from...Read More
Red Bank, SC 11/29/2023 (Paul Kirby) – Lexington County’s Engine 313 out of the Edmund Fire Station was responding to an emergency on Tuesday around 2:45 p.m. when it struck a Jeep on South Lake Drive. The fire truck was enroute to backup Engine 324 out of Red Bank on another reported collision that had...Read More
Nearly 1,200 feet of fire hose, which fell out of a Lake County Fire Rescue truck, damaged vehicles on a Florida highway recently, clickorlando.com reported. According to Florida Highway Patrol, the fire rescue truck was traveling northbound on the Florida Turnpike near Leesburg (close to mile marker 281) around 11 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 26 when the...Read More
WAUWATOSA, Wis. – A Wauwatosa fire truck was involved in a crash with a car on Mayfair Road on Saturday, Nov. 25. The wreck happened around 12:30 p.m. Officials said the fire truck was traveling in emergency mode (lights and siren activated) northbound on N. Mayfair Road. That is when a car attempted to turn left out of the...Read More
The Oak Bay Fire Department’s main engine is sidelined for repairs after a crash involving a van just before noon Tuesday that the department called minor. An ambulance attended the crash on Cadboro Bay Road near Cedar Hill Cross Road but no one in either vehicle was injured, said Oak Bay Fire Chief Frank Macdonald....Read More