Two Detroit firefighters were suspended from duty after they were accused of being in a bar on the job Saturday, reports WDIV.

The police were called to a bar in Melvindale with a fire engine parked out front to investigate a complaint of disorderly conduct. Firefighters told the office that they were attending a send-off dinner for a colleague, but that they were not drinking. At the officer’s urging, the firefighters and the fire engine moved on from the bar.

The fire department, however, sent the two firefighters involved, one of them a lieutenant, for alcohol testing, which reported one had alcohol in his system. The two firefighters were suspended.

Acting Fire Commissioner Chuck Simms told WDIV that, “I’m not going to tolerate that.”

A total of seven volunteer fire departments in Aiken County (SC) received new T-Style tanker trucks, reports postandcourier.com; they are Eureka, Silver Bluff, New Holland, Hollow Creek, Windsor, Monetta, and Salley.

Windsor, Salley, and Hollow Creek’s apparatus are already in service, the report says.

Salley officials say that on nearly every call a crew member has to drive the apparatus back to get more water when it runs out. The new tanker has double the capacity—3,000 gallons.

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The purchase was funded through Capital Project Sales Tax IV, voter-approved in November 2018. Included in the county’s share of the proceeds was $1.55 million for the purchase of tankers, which cost $240,000 each, according to the report.

Using a $27,950 grant from the Massachusetts Department of Emergency Management, the city of Chicopee (MA) is purchasing a high-tech underwater drone to assist in search and rescue operations on the Connecticut and Chicopee rivers, reports masslive.com.

The plan is to purchase the drone and a trailer that will be used to house and transport a utility terrain vehicle the city already owns (garaged at Fire Station 3), according to the report.

The drone has a camera and is operated via remote control.

Three boys have died in the past three years after falling through ice on the rivers.

A Rocky Mount city councilor, who is also a pastor, left his home for church Sunday and came across a man in a stopped car who had been shot. He called first responders to the 600 block of Lincoln Drive, where the car sat idling.

Inside, police said 32-year-old Jonathon Nixon sat with a head injury. When officers tried to aid him, the victim, apparently incoherent, accelerate

The Sunrise Beach (MO) Fire Protection District recently took delivery of a 2017 Pierce Enforcer, purchased used from Brindlee Mountain Fire Apparatus.

Previously serving the Sapulpa (OK) Fire Department, the apparatus has a 500-gallon water tank; a 30-gallon Class A foam tank with a Compressed Air Foam System; a 107-foot ladder; a 10-kilowatt hydraulic generator; and a 450-horsepower Cummins diesel engine.

New, the apparatus would have cost between $1.1 million and 1.4 million dollars; this unit was $749,000. The district put down $200,000 and traded in its 2008 Rosenbauer truck; the remaining balance was funded through a lease/purchase agreement of $475,000 with Central Bank of Lake of the Ozarks.

The district will pay $37,769.24 annually with no penalty for early payoff, which the district plans to do.