While fire crews in Kittitas and Yakima counties are close to fully containing both the Vantage Highway and Cow Canyon fires, blazes elsewhere in the region are prompting state and local officials to mobilize firefighters as this year’s wildfire season continues. According to Ryan Rodruck, a spokesperson for the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, the Vantage Highway fire, which broke out on Aug.
- PUB DATE: 8/11/2022 10:50:00 AM - SOURCE: Columbia Basin Herald - Metered Site

Dexter (MI) City Council members have decided to put a proposition to spend $8.4 million to renovate or replace a fire station before the voters in November, according to a report published by Mlive.com.

According to the report, if voters approve the bond proposal, the money would be used to replace a 1955 fire station on Main Street that is “functionally obsolete.”

To pay for the new Station 1, the councilors decided to ask voters to spend an estimated $2 on every $1,000 of taxable value, according to the report, which added the matter will be decided during balloting on November 8.

There remains an issue on whether to fund a significant renovation to the facility or build a new one on property the city had previously purchased in 2019, according to the report.

Attempts to resolve that issue at a council meeting on Monday night failed after the members did not approve a resolution to settle on building a new structure, according to the report.

Councilors will have to come up with some sort of language for the ballot by August 16 to make the ballot, according to the report.

A new pumper has been delivered to the Salem (IL) Fire Protection District to replace a 35-year-old unit and is the first brand new apparatus the district has received in a dozen years, according to a report published by WJBD 92.1.

According to the report, the new apparatus will carry both firefighting and rescue gear and will help the community maintain its Class 3 Insurance Services Office (ISO) rating.

The new truck was financed with help from a USDA Rural Development loan which covered the approximately $650,000 price tag, according to the report. The purchase did not require any bonding as it was part of the operational planning, the report said.

Seagrave—Lake Mohegan Fire District, Mohegan Lake, NY, Force aerial quint. Marauder stainless-steel tilt cab and chassis; Cummins X12 500-hp engine; Waterous CSU 2,000-gpm pump; UPF Poly 500-gallon water tank; 100-foot aerial ladder. Dealer: Santo Curro, Hudson Valley Fire Equipment, Brewster, NY.

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A new, full-equipped $850,000 rescue-pumper is now in service with Western Carteret (NC) Fire & EMS at the Cedar Point fire station replacing two worn out apparatus, according to a report published by Carteret County News-Times.

According to the report the new apparatus will replace a rescue truck and an engine, both which are more than 20 years old.

Previously, firefighters assigned to the shift would have to move from one vehicle to the other to respond to calls, but now the one apparatus will perform both duties, according to the report.

The 2022 Spartan Emergency Response rescue-engine will formally be put in service during a ceremony on Aug. 20, according to the report, which added the cost of the apparatus was $768,000 with an additional approximately $80,000 worth of equipment added.

The new apparatus will cover  Bogue, Cedar Point, Cape Carteret and Peletier, as well as unincorporated areas in the county, according to the report.