Black River First Assistant Fire Chief Leslie R. Williams said firefighters were investigating a crash between a van and a truck when a passing motorist saw smoke coming out of their fire truck. Firefighters extinguished the minor electrical fire within minutes, Mr. Williams said.

Mr. Williams said he believes the fire was caused when a door switch failed. Fort Drum firefighters drove to the scene in case the fire was larger, he said.

“We just put it out with a fire extinguisher,” he said. “It’s actually back in service.”

More than 500 firefighters already have arrived to fight the nearly 20,000-acre fire burning southeast of Prescott Valley in Arizona. Roughly 1,400 residents of the nearby town of Mayer were forced to evacuate Tuesday, according to Arizona news reports. The human-caused fire started Saturday and has destroyed nine homes.

Twenty firefighters make up Grand Junction’s wildland firefighting team, so local officials are comfortable sending four firefighters to help, Evans said.

A drone which could deliver a defibrillator to a person suffering from a cardiac arrest is being tested by the Karolinska Institute in Sweden.

Trial flights have the shown the drones can arrive at a destination four times faster than an ambulance.

The goal is to get response times to three minutes on the interstate.

“I think we can cut it in half with it being right there on 95,” explained Kirby. “A new building on I-95 cuts response times. The whole council is looking at the future for the whole system EMS rescue and fire.”

The EMS station will be one mile from the interstate.