Prices have doubled and fire equipment orders take three or four years to receive. How are Iowa fire departments coping?

Why is a fire truck not called a water truck? ... Lights and sirens are only one small part of what makes a fire truck unique among the various emergency response vehicles one might see.

GRUETTER: Specifically the fire trucks come with a lot of racking and sort of accessories built into them that are very suitable to farming. MARTIN: These are small, often even smaller than a sedan.

There have been a lot of advances in 25 years, so the new truck has much more electronics than the 2000 ladder truck and ...