The Columbia-Richland (SC) Fire Department is having a rough few weeks as it was reported Wednesday, Aug. 6, 2025, that another fire truck was in a collision, wltx.com reported. It is the third wreck in 24 days for the department’s fire apparatus.

The most recent accident happened Tuesday, Aug. 5, at the intersection of Garners Ferry Road and Atlas Road, when a Columbia fire truck, responding to a call, collided with a tractor trailer, the report said.

No one was injured in the crash, according to the report. There was no mention of how much damage the fire truck or the tractor trailer received.

On July 17, a crash between a Columbia-Richland fire truck resulted in the two occupants of the other vehicle being sent to a nearby hospital by EMS. They were sent “just as a precaution to be checked out,” the Columbia-Richland Fire Department said. No one in the fire truck was injured. The rig was not responding to a call at the time of the wreck.

Another collision involving a Columbia-Richland apparatus occurred July 12. In that wreck Columbia resident Carolyn V. Collins was killed when a fire truck collided with her sedan traveling north on Two Notch Road. The fire truck was responding to a call.

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On July 28, 2025, at approximately 6:30 p.m., Ontario (Canada) Provincial Police – North East Region responded to a single vehicle collision involving a fire truck on Goreville Road in Laurier Township, the police department said in a Facebook post.

As a result, a 52-year-old person from South River was charged with careless driving and driving the fire truck without an airbrake endorsement.

The driver was also issued a three-day suspension after registering a blood alcohol level in the warning range, according to a pentictonherald.ca report.

There were no injuries and the vehicle was removed.

Police did not identify the fire department the truck belonged to.

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A fire damaged the upstairs living quarters of the Poughkeepsie Fire Department’s Hooker Avenue firehouse Tuesday, Aug. 5, 2025, midhudsonnews.com reported. The firehouse has been a part of the South Side neighborhood since 1926, the report said.

Deputy Chief Vincent Parise of the Poughkeepsie (NY) Fire Department issued the following press release:

At 7:06 p.m. Tuesday, the Poughkeepsie Fire Department was dispatched to 224 Hooker Avenue for the report of smoke coming from the second story window. All department apparatus had just cleared from a previous alarm and responded immediately.

The first arriving engine found heavy smoke coming from multiple windows on the second floor of the Hooker Avenue firehouse. Crews aggressively made their way to the second floor to conduct fire suppression operations. They were met with heavy fire in the rear of the second floor. The fire was quickly extinguished, and salvage operations were started.

The fire caused extensive damage to the second floor area of the firehouse. Currently, the Hooker Avenue firehouse is uninhabitable. This is a difficult time for all of us within city administration and the Poughkeepsie Fire Department.

We appreciate all the outreach we have received so far. Although this is a setback, this will not affect the department’s emergency service we provided to the residents of Poughkeepsie, no reduction of manpower or apparatus will be affected while we rebuild our historic firehouse.

The fire is currently under investigation and does not appear to be suspicious in nature. There were no injuries to fire personnel.

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Marietta Daily Journal, Ga.
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MARIETTA — A little rain wasn’t going to stop Marietta officials from keeping with tradition Tuesday afternoon. To celebrate the Marietta Fire Department adding two new engines to its fleet, firefighters and City Council members helped push one of the trucks into the Station 55 garage.

The tradition — nicknamed a “push-in ceremony” — dates to the days of horse-drawn fire engines and equipment, according to Marietta Fire Chief Tim Milligan.

In the early days, firefighters would have to manually push their fire engine wagons into their stations since horses could not back them in. It has since been a tradition for firefighters to continue that legacy by pushing new engines into their stations themselves.

“The guys (firefighters) would take the horses off and push the old horse-drawn in,” Milligan said. “The (symbolism) of that has carried forward within the fire service for decades, and here we are.”

One of the department’s new engines will be located at Station 55, while the other will be stationed at Station 56 on Sawyer Road, according to Deputy Chief Joe Pacheco.

Both vehicles are more modern versions of their current engines, with no major changes to their equipment storage.

“That’s what we’re very fortunate about … We don’t have to stop what we are doing and retrain our folks to use these trucks,” Pacheco said. “These are cookie cutters of what we already have … so our downtime is minimal.”

Walker said each truck cost approximately $650,000, while all funds to pay for the new trucks were provided by the 2022 SPLOST, according to City Manager Bill Bruton.

Prior to the push-in ceremony, Bruton took a moment to thank city officials and taxpayers for their support of the fire department.

“I just want to thank the voters for allowing us to have this money to be able to do this, because we wouldn’t be able to do this otherwise,” Bruton said.

Councilman Johnny Walker echoed Bruton’s comments, calling the new trucks “taxpayer money well spent.”

“I want to let the people of Marietta know that SPLOST is very important because this is what we get,” Walker said. “We’ve got the best fire department in the state and this going to help make us even better.”

Milligan said the department is grateful the city and taxpayers are willing to provide them with up-to-date equipment to help make the community safe.

“I know our fleet team right now is taking a collective sigh of relief because we’ve got two new engines on the road, and they can take two older engines and do extensive repairs to them,” Milligan said. “We’re a very busy department, we cover a lot of miles in these trucks, and so to be able to swap out a third of your fleet is significant.”

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