Tacoma Fire Department added two brush trucks to its fleet in the last several years, Shepherd said. The trucks are able to access rougher areas that regular engines can’t reach. The department ...

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The alarm was ultimately upgraded to the third alarm level for brush trucks, fire officials said. Fire crews from Burlington, Cary, Crystal Lake, Hampshire, Hebron, Marengo, Pingree Grove, Union and ...

Waldrup said there were no injuries, since it was an unmanned station. He said the fire department had a brush truck in the station that it was about to deploy to aid in the wildfires in California.