SEABROOK - Nine months to build and years in the planning, Seabrook Fire Department's Tower 1 engine and ladder backed into the middle bay of the fire station this week. Nicknamed "Rough and Ready" in script on its side, the $1.1 million 102-foot ladder and bucket is as much crane as fire engine, according to fire Chief Bill Edwards.

A new fire station will be built at Cobb County International Airport - McCollum Field. The initial phase was approved recently by the Cobb County Board of Commissioners by paying $54,250 to Croy Engineering for the station's site plan design.

ROCKINGHAM - "It's been a long project," Jim Chavis said Saturday afternoon at the grand opening of the new station of the Northside Volunteer Fire Department. "It's been a very involved project," he continued. "And that's the reason it's been a long project.

YPSILANTI, Mich. (WXYZ) - One person was killed and two others were injured in a crash involving a fire truck in Washtenaw County. It happened on westbound I-94 near Grove Street in Ypsilanti. Firefighters were on the highway responding to a rollover accident when the driver of another vehicle slammed into the back of their truck, according to fire crews.

One Eastern Carolina town that has known its share of tragedy from the weather is sending a firetruck to another shaken by Mother Nature. Princeville sent a fire engine to Autryville after the Sampson County town lost three firetrucks in a tornado Tuesday.