The Lincoln Township (MI) Fire Department recently took delivery of its new 2022 Pierce pumper.

The apparatus has a 1,250-gallons-per-minute Waterous pump and holds 1,000 gallons of water. There’s still more equipment to be added, but it should be placed into service soon.

With the new addition, the department is accepting bids for its predecessor: A 1995 GMC TopKick Pumper with a 750-gpm Hale pump and a 1,000-gallon tank with foam unit. It has 24,232 miles on it.

The bidding process will remain open until the February 8 board meeting.

The College Place (WA) Fire Department is set to replace an apparatus and purchase protective equipment, on the heels of city council approval, reports union-bulletin.com.

Council recently approved the $700,000 truck purchase as well as up to $150,000 in additional funds on replacement SCBA equipment, the report says. The department will replace 14 SCBAs, 40 masks, and 28 air bottles.

The purchase is being made jointly with the Walla Walla Fire Department and Walla Walla County Fire District 4, according to the report.

The move was approved at a city council meeting, the entirety of which can be seen here:

The Salem (OH) Fire Department spent the majority of last year’s shifts on medical calls, and in doing so arrived via ambulance, as opposed to fire truck, for the last six months—an arrangement that has worked out well, reports morningjournalnews.com.

Since June, the department’s new Engine 2 went out on 307 calls, while the ambulance ran 889 calls. Old Engine 2 had 764 calls the first half of 2021, pre-ambulance, the report says. That, extrapolated over the life of the apparatus, can be significant.

The department used CARES Act funding to pay for the ambulance, a heart monitor, and a CPR-performing Lucas device in 2020 for $193,887, and it was delivered in 2021. Last year, $48,205 in CARES Act funding was used to purchase a power load cot system and a stair chair for it, among other equipment, according to the report.

Out of the 2,147 total calls in 2021, 1,472 were of the EMS variety, a jump from 1,337 such calls the year prior. Officials say that medical calls didn’t increase because of the ambulance—the department would have attended with Engine 2 regardless.

The department’s average response time remained at 4.13 minutes; training hours increased from 2,434 hours to 2,740.7 hours; inspections increased from 183 to 193 and classes/tours; extinguisher training at businesses decreased from 15 to 14; and grants/fees collected increased from $1,200 to $1,403, the report notes.