Tom Shand explains why an apparatus committee must add vertical and horizontal reach to the vehicle dimensions that are considered when the group begins to prepare its specifications for the ...

Michael Wilbur discusses the training and education needed to understand serial and elevating platform apparatus in the first installment of this new series. Aerial and elevating platform ...

Room also must be left for the “outriggers,” metal structures that extend from the truck and bear weight. Without them, the weight of the ladder could topple the truck. When firefighter/driver ...

You'll notice they all have outriggers or stabilizers of some kind. Seems to make sense, right? Why not apply the same to extension ladder? By adding outriggers to an extension ladder, we can ...