Most firetruck horns are jarringly loud (like a train horn for your car almost), reaching over 125 decibels in many cases. It may hurt your ears and sound unpleasant, but that's sort of the point.

Tense moments at Wittmann Regional Airport yesterday morning, as reports of flames coming from one of the engines of Fifi, ...

The new Volterra electric truck was first used on June 20 at a residential structure fire on Bay Drive in Cary.

Kruger said the fully equipped truck, which the New Bedford Fire Department helped design, cost $750,000. That compares with the $435,000 the city paid for its 2008 predecessor.