The five-minute clip, filmed from the dash of a fire engine, shows the vehicle driving through parched countryside as smoke billows above it.

As the fire engine travels along the road, visibility gradually worsens and the fire truck is forced to stop behind another fire engine.

About two minutes into the video a huge wall of flames can be seen moving towards the trucks from the right-hand side of the road.

'Here it comes! Here it comes!' a firefighter says desperately as it draws nearer. 

An artist’s rendering of the 5,110-square-foot fire station called “Vicksburg Fire Department Station 3,” shows a brick building with a metal roof and three bays for vehicles that will open on Berryman Road. According to the bid specifications and architect’s floor plans, the third bay is optional if the project bids are underbudget. The extra bay would add an additional 1,360 square feet to the station.

Atkins said plans for the station include having a pumper, aerial truck, rescue truck and ambulance.

City officials have discussed building a new station in east Vicksburg for several years to have better and quicker access to accidents on Interstate 20, the multi-story hotels in the Clay Street area and Merit Health River Region Medical Center, which falls under the fire department’s responsibility.

It may not look like a state of the art truck to us, but this 1970 tanker is about to go back into service.

The Abrams Fire Department doesn’t use the truck anymore, so it’s donating it to firefighters all the way in Nicaragua.

“They’re very, very spread out, very mountainous, very hard to get to, so this six-wheel drive truck that Abrams Fire Department is furnishing to them is going to come in very handy for them up in the mountainous area,” says Green Bay Metro Fire Captain Eric Johnson.

Through the Firefighters United Project of the Wisconsin Nicaragua Partners, the truck and dozens of pieces of equipment and old gear are on their way south.

Green Bay Metro Firefighters loaded up some 50 sets of turnout gear Thursday morning. They’re more than 10 years old and considered expired by U.S. safety standards, but firefighters think they’re too good to just throw away.

“There’s still a lot of life left in it. There’s firefighters down in Nicaragua that aren’t so fortunate to have the gear that we have here in America and may not be useful here, but down in Nicaragua, they’re going to get a lot of use out of it,” says Johnson.