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Riverside, California welcomed a new fire truck this week.

The nearly $400,000 rig is on loan thanks to a partnership between the department and the California Emergency Management Agency, KMAX-TV reported. It replaces a 20-year-old truck.

It’s ergonomically designed to access remote, urban and disaster areas. The new rig can turn on a dime, has more accessible ladders and emergency equipment. It is also stocked with an 850 gallon water tank, which is about 300 gallons more than the average in-service engine.

While assigned to the Riverside Fire Department, the new truck can respond to fires all over California as well as neighboring states, according to KMAX-TV.

The department plans to sell the old rig for $40,000-$50,000.

Read the full story from KMAX-TV here.

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Sutphen, the 123-year-old Dublin, Ohio fire truck manufacturer, built 190 rigs last year, 10TV.com reported.

“We build the entire truck from the ground up,” said Alissa McGlone, Sutphen’s marketing manager.

10TV.com took viewers inside Sutphen to see some of the custom fire trucks under construction.

10TV.com’s full story is here.

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A New York fire truck responding to a fire and a car collided Tuesday afternoon in a neighborhood residents said needs more traffic control.

A photo on SILive.com shows the rig and car came to rest in front of a banner with a large stop sign that reads, “Hey DOT … Stop Signs in School Zones. What’s the Issue?”

Engine Co. 163 was responding to an all-hands fire in the second-floor bedroom of a house at 288 St. John’s Ave., and was proceeding with full lights and sirens, according to [FDNY spokesman Mike] Parrella. The truck was due to be the first on the scene.

Witnesses told SILive.com’s Ryan Lavis and John Anneses the car was on a street without a stop sign, while the street on which the fire truck was traveling does have a stop sign at the intersection.

While the driver of the car was being treated at the hospital, he told SILive.com ”police officers issued him a summons from the FDNY for ‘failure to yield.’”

“I don’t know how can they even think about issuing someone a ticket after they blew through a stop sign and hit me,” [Dominic] Scaglione said. “Me and my daughter could have been dead.” Scaglione contended he was driving at a steady pace and didn’t notice the oncoming truck until it was too late.

FDNY could not confirm the ticket to SILive.com.

Fire officials said two crew members suffered minor injuries.

Everyone inside the home got out safely and it was under control about 40 minutes after the blaze was first reported, Parrella told SILive.com.

Read SILive.com’s full story and see photos here. WABC-TV’s full story here.

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A Colorado fire truck was used Sunday for an unusual rescue.

A 200 pound bear was up a tree in Aubrey Adkins’ Colorado Springs yard, KOAA.com reported.

Wildlife Officer Tonya Sharp told KOAA.com once tranquillized, officials usually just let the bears fall from a tree, but this female bear was higher up and through thick branches.

From KOAA.com:

“First time ever for me, you don’t really train to get a black bear out of a tree,” said Lt. Mike Smaldino. “Just kind of treated it like any other kind of rescue that we have, we just have, we have systems that we can setup if it were a person and so we just kind of did that around a bear.”

A fire engine ladder was raised to the top of the tree and fire fighters and wildlife officers wrapped ropes and harnesses around the sedated bear and tied them to the end of the ladder. Then, slowly and gently, the bear was pulled out of the tree and lowered to the ground.

Wildlife experts made sure the bear was ok then transported her out of the area.

KOAA.com’s full story is here.

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A driver in the United Kingdom did the right thing — he pulled to another lane for fire trucks responding to a call. Then, he received a ticket for the effort.

Cameras placed along the Bristol highway captured 67-year-old Ian Pemble pulling in the lane designated for buses, the Daily Mail reported. A few seconds later, two rigs passed Pemble.

“I paid my fine. But I was so annoyed with them, and I know my rights, so I asked for more evidence,” Pemble told the Daily Mail. “And it was lucky I did because when they sent through the video, it clearly shows me moving out of the way of two fire engines.”

Pemble will get his money back as well as an apology.

A council spokeswoman told the Daily Mail that while the video is typically reviewed before tickets are sent out to watch for these instances, that didn’t happen in this case.

The Daily Mail’s full story is here.  Another story, from Metro, is here.

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A Connecticut fire station was damaged when a rig’s tool tray wasn’t closed and hit the building as the truck pulled out.

It will cost about $10,000 to fix the Collinsville building, including part of the brick on the outside, Ken Byron of the Hartford Courant reported.

The fire truck, which also had minor damage, was headed to a call for a car into a house on May 8 when the incident happened, Byron wrote.

“The tray was left open and when the truck drove out it essentially took out part of the wall of the building,” Town Chief Administrative Officer Robert Skinner told the Courant.

The incident is under investigation.

Read the Hartford Courant’s full story here.

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A fire truck en route from Florida to Canada caught fire Tuesday in South Dakota.

Officials with the Highway Patrol told ArgusLeader.com the driver pulled over after smelling smoke, then saw flames under the rig.

Two South Dakota fire departments helped put the fire out.

ArgusLeader.com’s full story is here.

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One Pennsylvania borough council is expressing its feelings with the fire chief after he used a fire truck “as a prom limousine,” TribLive.com’s Joe Napsha reported.

Back in April, West Newton chief Craig Sanner’s son and prom date were driven to the high school on a department rig.

“If true, we feel this is an inappropriate use of public monies,” said the council’s resolution, and the councilman who brought the issue to the meeting said there was a potential public safety problem if that rig had been needed for a call, Napsha wrote.

Chief Sanner spoke with Napsha from the station after the meeting:

Sanner said the fire truck was never “out of service” and never outside the area where it responds to calls under mutual aid agreements with Herminie and Lowber.

The fire truck would have responded to a fire call if an emergency had occurred en route to the high school, Sanner said. His wife was driving a car behind the fire truck and she would have picked up the couple in the event the fire truck had to be used in an emergency, Sanner said.

Sanner told Napsha the truck returned to West Newton not long after dropping the teens off.

Joe Napsha’s full story on TribLive.com is here. A video report from KDKA is here.

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An Ohio man who police said stole and crashed a tanker Friday died.

Brentley Montgomery was ejected from the rig which hit a guardrail and rolled over, Dispatch.com reported. The 19-year-old was airlifted to Ohio State Medical Center.

From Dispatch.com early Tuesday:

Franklin County Coroner Jan Gorniak confirmed yesterday evening that Montgomery had died. He had not been formally charged in connection with the theft and the wreck.

10TV.com reported surveillance video shows a man getting into the fire station by breaking a window.

The 2,200 gallon Harrison Township Fire Department tanker was insured and will cost between $190,000 and $250,000 to replace, according to Dispatch.com.

Harrison Township trustees declared an emergency, which “paves the way for a temporary replacement truck until their insurance comes through,” 10TV.com reported.

“We have low money and low budget, and this is going to hurt a lot,” said Harrison Township Fire Chief Bryon Thornton.

FireTruckBlog.com’s original story is here, Dispatch.com’s story is here, and click here and here for 10TV.com’s reports. 10TV.com’s photo gallery from the crash is here.

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A Houston fire captain was injured Saturday night after a pickup crashed into a fire truck en route to an emergency call.

Police told KHOU-TV the pickup’s driver, who was charged with driving while intoxicated, “failed to yield the right of way.”

The injured fire captain was in stable condition at Memorial Hermann Hospital, KHOU-TV said.

KHOU-TV’s full story is here.

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