City of Raleigh Municipal Government
In Raleigh, North Carolina, municipal government leaders want residents to know firefighting in the city is more advanced than it once was.
“You can see in this video that the firemen really have no control once they release the ladder; it goes up to its full extension and is difficult to operate. To store the ladder and prepare the truck to move, you had to crank it down by hand using a lever,” says Ronald Campbell, deputy fire marshal, in this informational video. “This was time consuming and very difficult. It’s a lot different now, when everything is controlled by hydraulics.”