The Northern Lakes Fire District is seeing an influx of service calls, and with fewer people on board, it’s taking longer to answer calls for help, KXLY.com reported. But help is on the way. 

The fire district was just awarded a $4.5 million grant to hire 12 firefighters and staff a third fire station for the area. The new station will be in Garwood (ID) and would decrease the time it takes for fire crews to respond to that area, while also alleviating staffing issues, the report said.

Firefighters in the district say they don’t just need a third station, but a fourth as well, the report said.

Like many departments, Carrollton Fire Rescue used apparatus to serve as a blocker truck when responding car crashes. But over three-and-a-half years, that apparatus got hit four times.

Now the department has fabricated a blocker trailer that it dispatches to every automobile accident to provide protection to the crews on the scene with less expense when a driver accidentally rams the barrier.

The CBS Dallas reports that the trailer has already proved its value. After being in service less than a month, the trailer has already been hit at a crash scene, protecting a police officer working the crash.

An encampment fire underneath Seattle’s Ship Canal Bridge caused traffic backups along Interstate 5 Wednesday morning. KIRO Newsradio’s Sam Campbell says that fire crews have extinguished all but the embers of the fire under the bridge, but lanes continued to crawl past emergency vehicles throughout the morning.
- PUB DATE: 9/28/2022 7:37:49 AM - SOURCE: My Northwest

A Star Tannery couple has donated a utility terrain vehicle to their local volunteer fire department — Frederick County Station 17 — and will present the vehicle Sunday, WinchesterStar.com reported.

Dave and Kathy Holliday became full-time residents of Star Tannery recently and donated a Polaris three-seater priced at around $16,000, the report said.

The contribution adds an apparatus rural stations need in their arsenal when combating blazes: Vehicles that allow teams to wend across undeveloped terrain to quicken responses to calls, according to the report. In the past, Star Tannery Volunteer Fire and Rescue Department had to depend on two nearby stations, Middletown and North Mountain, for assistance on certain calls because they lacked a UTV, which can slow response time by about 20 minutes, a fire official said in the report.

Emergencies on undeveloped tracts of land are not so infrequent in southwestern Frederick County. The Star Tannery area is known to be one of the rockiest around and is home to part of the George Washington National Forest, the report said.

The Star Tannery VFD has responded to medical emergencies that occurred during hunting trips in remote areas and to roaring barn blazes on agricultural properties. The Polaris UTV will help the department haul fire suppression equipment and stokes baskets through forests or across changes in elevation, the report said.

Rosenbauer—Cleveland Township Fire Department, South Whitley, IN, pumper. Commander 6511 cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump; ProPoly polypropylene 1,250-gallon water tank; Rosenbauer FX body; Lo Pro hydraulic ground ladder rack; sealed lever bank pump controls; Akron electric valves. Dealer: Todd Roempagel, Sentinel Emergency Solutions, St. Louis, MO.

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