The St. Lewis mayor said with the community’s only fire truck out of service, they need new firefighting equipment, CBC.ca reported.

In emergencies, the town attaches a water pump to a volunteer’s truck, but the old truck doesn’t work anymore, the mayor said in the report.

A woman in the Labrador community of St. Lewis spoke up recently about the lack of fire services after nothing could be done to stop her son’s shed from burning down earlier this month, the report said. When the shed caught fire a call was made to the volunteer fire department, but was informed that they couldn’t do anything due to the fire truck being broke down and the pump being frozen, the report said.

Regarding the shed fire, the mayor said the fire brigade did show up and focused on preventing the fire from spreading to other buildings nearby, the report said.

The mayor said the town is working to move into a new fire house soon and is meeting in the next couple of weeks to ask for a new fire truck, according to the report.