Tomorrow, the city of Madison, Wisconsin, will celebrate the grand opening of the department's biggest fire station, Station 14, which serves southeastern Madison.

According to a report on channel3000.com, residents in that area used to have to wait from 10-15 minutes for crews to arrive in case of an emergency. Now crews are to respond to calls in southeastern Madison and Blooming Grove in five minutes or less.

The station will also reportedly double as a training facility, with plans to move the next training recruit academy there. Station 14 also features special washing and drying machines for gear as well as a detox sauna.

Read more at the reports above.

The 2018 Wheeled Coach Ford F-450 Ambulance was purchased from Keystone Emergency Vehicles through Pennsylvania COSTARS. The emergency vehicle is equipped with the latest technology. The administration negotiated for the purchase to include an extended 7-year warranty which will provide significant savings.  

It will take about three weeks to fully equip the vehicle and get it licensed by the PA Department of Health, Bureau of Emergency Medical Services, before it can be put in service.The new ambulance will likely begin service in March according to Tyler Ryan, Executive Assistant to Mayor Tony George.

Jon Stillpass and Shaylor Taetz, who have both been working as paramedics and firefighters for about seven years, had to go to extreme lengths to get a patient to DePaul Hospital in wintry conditions. The two had no idea the event was photographed by Carol Parks, one of the hospital's nurses.

The two came upon the scene of a metro bus, loaded with just the driver, that had slid on ice and spun around in the opposite direction. The ambulance itself started to slide as they approached, but Stillpass managed to keep the vehicle on the road.

Though Taetz says the driver didn't have any life-threatening injuries, she was shaken up, and it was clear she needed to be taken to the hospital for evaluation.