March 17, 2022 – For Immediate Release – Manasquan, NJ

P.L. Custom Body and Equipment Co., Inc. (PLCB) is pleased to announce the addition of Trinity Apparatus, of Conroe, TX, to its growing family of dealers. Trinity Apparatus will be providing sales and service of both PL Custom Emergency Vehicles and Rescue 1 in Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma.

Buster Barsh, President of Trinity Apparatus, had the following to say about this new partnership: “We are very excited to be a part of the PLCB family! Carmen and I were very impressed with PLCBs’ quality work, awesome factory environment, innovations, and capabilities! We are confident that with our 20-year experience in sales and service, combined with PLCBs’ over 75 years of expert manufacturing, it will be a win for Service Providers throughout our States. Thank you for this opportunity.”

Chad Newsome, National Sales Manager for PLCB, welcomes the addition of Trinity Apparatus to the PLCB family. “It is unusual for a provider to steer you to a dealer candidate, but that is how I connected with the team at Trinity Apparatus. I was fortunate to meet Buster and his wife, Carmen, as well as the rest of the team from Trinity Apparatus as a direct result of a provider’s recommendation. The Trinity Apparatus family will be a welcome addition to our PL Custom / Rescue 1 family. We look forward to making new inroads into the Texas, Louisiana, and Oklahoma markets as a direct result of this strategic move. All of us here in Manasquan look forward to a strong future with Trinity Apparatus.”

P.L. Custom Body and Equipment Co., Inc. has been in business since 1946 and has been owned by the Smock family since 1970. Last year marked our 75^th anniversary of independent ownership and we continue into the future with a strong network of 18 independent dealers covering 27 states and the District of Columbia. PL Custom Emergency Vehicle and Rescue 1 are the manufacturing divisions of the corporation and are proud to maintain a strong reputation as a customer focused designer and manufacturer of ambulances and rescue vehicles. PLCB continues to grow at a consistent pace, happy to be able to add partners who share our long-term vision for high quality products, outstanding customer service, and smart and sustainable growth. We are small by design, family-owned, and rich in heritage and tradition.

Sanford’s Central Fire Station is beginning to show its age, officials say, and the 60-year-old Main Street facility is too cramped, according to a report in spectrumlocalnews.com.

Officials have for years debated the best way to replace the station, one of three managed by the Sanford Fire Department, and now with the purchase of a property at 1280 Main St., the vision becomes a smidge clearer, the report says.

It’s the first step in a consolidation plan to replace all three fire stations, with the other two in South Sanford and Springvale. City officials say Sanford is using funds from the American Rescue Plan Act to avoid a bond to pay for the acquisition.

The location for the second new station is still being debated.

An ambulance and a car were involved collided in New Castle, Pennsylvania, Wednesday, sending ambulance patient and the car’s driver to the hospital, WTAE reports.

The crash happened at East Washington Street and Butler Avenue.

The paramedics in the ambulance were evaluated at the scene. The cause of the crash remains under investigation.

The Montgomery Volunteer Fire Department recently took delivery of Tanker 6.

The department plans to train on the fire truck and put it into service soon.

By Alan M. Petrillo

Conduit Architecture + Design has been involved with the design and construction of several fire stations for the city of McKinney (TX), with its most recent effort coming with the completion of Fire Station No. 11 at 6260 Rundell Way in McKinney, an area that’s seen rapid growth and is densely populated with mixed single- and multi-family housing, duplexes, apartment complexes, and some commercial structures.

Danny Kistner, McKinney Fire Department’s chief, says the city has a population of 200,000 in 69 square miles, but when the department’s extra-territorial jurisdiction is taken into account, that coverage area balloons to 113 square miles. “Our 11 stations are single-apparatus houses, with seven of them having a medical unit,” Kistner says. “We run on the quint concept and have half of our stations populated with engines, and the rest with 100-foot aerial quints. We expect to take delivery of an aerial platform soon, and in the coming years intend on having a tractor drawn aerial (TDA) in Station 11.”

Eric Ciskowski, principal at Conduit, points out that Conduit designed and built Stations 9 and 10 for McKinney, and got the contract to handle Station 11 in mid-2019. “Station 11 is a single-story fire station with three bays that are double-deep, drive through, with MagneGrip vehicle emission systems and positive pressure between the living areas and the bays,” Ciskowski says. “While Stations 9 and 10 were in residential neighborhoods and required designs to complement those areas, Station 11 is in a more urban area, with apartment buildings, and the course where the Byron Nelson golf tournament is held nearby, so they wanted a taller station with a more urban feel.”

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