Ford’s new Ranger Super Duty was designed to handle serious work, and the company has already found a particularly demanding job for it. In Australia, Ford has transformed the heavy-duty pickup into a ...

Vehicle-based firefighting equipment has come a long way since English inventor Richard Newsham patented the first fire engine in 1721. His horse-drawn machine incorporated a long-levered pump into ...

In the first installment of this three-part series of articles, featured in the August 2024 print issue and online, we discussed fire pump requirements along with Code-related references in the ...

Fire engines and fire trucks often get lumped together in everyday conversation, yet on the fireground they serve very different purposes. That distinction shapes how departments buy equipment, train ...

Whereas Part 1 of this three-part installment covered connections to and power sources for fire pumps (August 2024), and Part 2 dealt with disconnecting means, overcurrent protection, and transformers ...