Universal City firefighters stretch the basket of the city’s new ladder truck during training exercises Monday. The 50-foot-long ladder truck, which arrived in mid-October and cost $754,000, features a 104-foot ladder, a 2,000 gallon-per-minute pump and a fully automatic platform with remote operations capability. Fire Chief Ross Wallace expects the unit to be in service within 60-90 days. Photo by Jeff B. Flinn