Members of the Kent Island VFD (Maryland) are looking forward to their newest apparatus: Tower 1. (pictured to left & below)
Scheduled to arrive on Saturday, it will replace a 1978 Pierce Arrow – 85′LTI Tower.
Members must be trained on the truck before they can begin using it.
Read more here.
A little further north, firefighters in Carbonear Volunteer Fire Department in Canada will also welcome a new truck Saturday. Replacing a 1970s era 100-foot aerial ladder will be an aerial truck with pumper capabilities. The full story is here.
A Ferrara platform truck is the newest addition to the Mount Vernon Fire Department in Illinois. City funds and insurance money from a wrecked rig helped pay for the $930,000 apparatus. Tesa Culi has more in the Mount Vernon Register-News here.
In Mississippi, the Jones County Board of Supervisors got its first look at Rustin VFD and Sharon VFD‘s new tankers. Both are E-One Water Master Fire Service Vacuum Tankers, purchased in large part with federal grants. Charlotte Graham’s full story can be found here in the Laurel Leader-Call.
Kent Island sold the old Tower to Locke Township VFD in NC. They have already used it on a working fire, even thought it hasn’t been re-lettered or officially placed in service!
http://www.salisburypost.com/News/040511-church-fire-qcd
Locke Township website:
http://www.lockefire.com/