The new firetruck Ladder 2 is a custom-built, Cummins powered quint – which means it has five functions: pumper, tanker, fire hose, aerial device and ground ladders. It is a 2017 quint and will carry up to six firefighters and has a 77-foot aerial ladder. It was custom manufactured by Ferrara Fire Apparatus with custom features just for the City of Beebe. It has a 500-gallon water supply and can pump 1,750 gallons per minute.

Detroit police responded to the accident scene, but the firefighters claimed someone sideswiped the fire rig. Although they initially lied to police and superiors, their stories didn't line up. Eventually they confessed to causing more than $75,000 worth of damage to the vehicle.

The fire truck is now behind locked doors at the Detroit Fire Maintenance Division, considered evidence while Detroit Fire Commissioner Eric Jones tells us an investigation is underway.

In the meantime the two firefighters involved in the wreck and one firefighter who helped cover for them, are on administrative leave without pay.

“What is proposed is the creation of a fund that would take all the medical billing revenue collected by the Town of Nahant and use it specifically to offset the costs of providing the service. Currently, the line items in the Nahant Fire Department budget that relate to the ambulance service are funded through the general fund. With the establishment of the Ambulance Enterprise fund, the majority of those line items will be funded directly by medical billing revenue instead of the general fund.”