As 48-year-old Danny Weber was being taken to Froedtert Hospital, the ambulance carrying him was involved in a collision near 92nd Street and Oklahoma in Milwaukee, the cause of which is still under investigation.

Weber was being taken to the hospital after a crash on Highway 83 at Black Bear Boulevard in Mukwonago. According to Mukwonago Police Chief Kevin Schmidt, Weber was northbound on Highway 83 on a motorcycle when a 2008 Mercury sedan pulled out from Black Bear Boulevard to head south on 83. Weber's motorcycle struck the rear of the sedan.

The driver of the car, a 91-year-old man from Burlington, was taken to Waukesha Memorial Hospital with minor injuries.

Weber, who was not wearing a helmet, sustained a serious head injury when he was thrown from his motorcycle, said Schmidt.

Mukwonago Fire Chief Jeff Stien said Weber was in very critical condition before he was transported by the Mukwonago Fire Department ambulance, but he is unsure whether "anything after that contributed" to his death.

The first truck has been delivered. It was parked Tuesday at Atlantic Emergency Solutions dealership in Williamsport, where the fire department and the dealership are working out final details on the rig. That truck, which will be stationed at Pioneer Hook and Ladder on West Franklin Street, cost the city $1.1 million.

City Fire Chief Steve Lohr appeared before the council last week to request that it expedite the purchase of the second truck.

The previous administration agreed to purchase the second truck in 2018, but Lohr told the council and Mayor David S. Gysberts that he has been able to line up a discount from the Pierce manufacturing company if the vehicle was purchased now.

Since the city purchased the first truck, Pierce has imposed three 3.5 percent price increases, and a similar hike is anticipated in October, he said.

Lohr said Pierce quoted him a subtotal price of about $1.3 million for the second truck. But if the city purchases the truck now, it would enjoy several discounts bringing the price down to $1.2 million, he said.

In addition, the Western Enterprise Fire Co., where the second truck would be headquartered, has agreed to contribute $150,000 toward the purchase, bringing the city's cost down to a little more than $1 million, according to Lohr.

Fire trucks and firefighters from 10 departments - from Jackson County and a few neighboring counties - were on display on May 21.

Tony Cruz, a Parma-Sandstone Fire Department firefighter, was one of four on the committee organizing the event.

Cruz has been living on four hours of sleep for the past month to organize the event, along with keeping up with firefighting duties and his job as a full-time electrician. All but one of the firefighters there were volunteers, including "ministers, lawn guys, computer guys and high school students," he said.

"I have a lot of friends that ride in motorcycle clubs and they have their blessing of the bikes every year," Cruz said. "I said, 'How cool would it be to get all of our firetrucks together?' So it was kind of my brain child bringing this in and we just rolled with it from there."

"I don't know if the gentleman was trying to slow down and get on this ramp, which would have been devastating being the wrong way, but the trooper did a lawful pit maneuver, which was able to successfully get the suspect stopped," said trooper Darren Conrad.