The new truck also comes equipped with a pump and can carry 500 gallons of water, new features over the 1996 version.

This is Milford’s only ladder truck, and it joins a fleet that includes four engines, two tankers, two brush trucks, and a bucket truck, pickup truck, and rescue truck, Touhey said. The department also houses a variety of other heavy equipment, from trailers meant for different types of technical rescue - like a building collapse - to disaster relief, to a state-provided mass decontamination unit, meant to protect hospitals from outbreaks.

Chief Jenkerson says he needs 26 new vehicles, 10 of them fire trucks.

He showed News 4 one truck that’s showing wear and tear. It leaks and they can't raise the ladder because it's not safe.

“I need a 75 foot ladder close to downtown,” he said.

At the same firehouse, the paint's peeling on the roof. When it rains, it pours inside.

“It is tough on morale, you want to give them a good place to live and a safe and comfortable place to live,” he said.

On July 20th, surveillance video caught someone vandalizing the outside of the Yuba Volunteer Fire Department.

Because this is a volunteer fire department, no one knew this happened until Sunday.

The suspect broke lights, cameras, and an air conditioning unit when they were apparently trying to break in the building.

The department, alongside the town’s Fire Station Feasibility Study Committee, is looking into an addition or expansion or moving to a new building elsewhere. Experts are doing a feasibility study with $75,000 approved under the town’s capital improvement plan.

Preliminary cost estimates range from $7 million to $9 million, depending if the town needs to buy land, according to the plan. The studies started under former chief Fire Chief David Durgin, who retired in 2015.

The building needs a new heating and cooling system, roof work, and electrical and plumbing improvements.

Parenti said the committee visited a number of different recently opened stations, including ones in Holden, Westborough, Uxbridge, Belmont and Newton.

The station’s community room is now filled with the department workout equipment, because the gym was converted into a dorm. The station does not have accommodations for female firefighters.