{"id":249012,"date":"2026-04-02T21:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249012\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T21:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T21:11:12","slug":"fire-truck-monopoly-lawsuit-filed-newsradio-600-kogo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/249012\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire Truck Monopoly? Lawsuit Filed | Newsradio 600 KOGO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>San Diego County has filed a federal lawsuit against a handful of companies it says took over the market for fire trucks, leading to higher prices and slower rollouts to replace an aging fleet.<\/p>\n<p>The county\u2019s complaint alleges the defendants acquired a number of smaller fire truck manufacturers and have essentially eliminated competition for the vehicles and their parts.<\/p>\n<p>San Diego County Board of Supervisors Chair Terra Lawson-Remer says \u201cFirefighters don\u2019t have a choice \u2013 when a truck breaks down, they need a new one.\u201c She says that for years, fire departments have been paying more and waiting longer.<\/p>\n<p>She called the lawsuit part of a county strategy to go \u201cafter a handful of greedy companies that turned fire trucks into profit cash cows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego County has filed a federal lawsuit against a handful of companies it says took over the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[4853,66938,1846,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-249012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-firefighters","9":"tag-kogo-news","10":"tag-lawsuit","11":"tag-local-news","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-san-diego-county","15":"tag-san-diego-headlines","16":"tag-san-diego-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}