The cause of a fire that destroyed two homes and five cars in Mattawa Sunday morning around 4:00 am is still under investigation. Mattawa Fire Chief Joe Noonchester says crews originally responded to a report of a car fire in the area of South Selkirk Avenue and 7th Street, but the call was soon upgraded to a structure fire.
- PUB DATE: 10/11/2021 12:42:51 PM - SOURCE: KPQ-AM 560 Wenatchee

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Myriad apparatus were on display at the Otter Creek (IN) Fire Department Sunday for the Rosenbauer Power Tour.

From 5-7 p.m. more than a dozen apparatus, products, vendors, and more showed up.

Officials say each of Otter Creek’s trucks are from Rosenbauer.

The tour’s next stops can be seen below:

Westfield is planning to build the city’s first new fire station in a decade, reports indystar.com–a 36,000-square-foot facility for the Westfield (IN) Fire Department at the southeast corner of 171st Street and Ditch Road.

A final cost analysis is still pending, but the city’s estimate was about $13 million, officials say.

The new facility will relocate the department’s Station 81 from the Westfield Public Safety Building, which houses the entire Westfield Police Department, the fire department’s headquarters, and the personnel and equipment for Station 81, according to the report.

Plans for the new station call for eight drive-through bays, administrative offices, a kitchen, dining room, bunk rooms, fitness rooms, and locker rooms, the report says.

The city has three fire stations—the most recent is Station 83 on Grassy Branch Road, finished in 2011.

Osceola County (FL) Fire Rescue and EMS recently put a new Sutphen engine in service, according to the Osceola News-Gazette.

The newspaper reported the engine, which cost more than $500,000, was ushered in with a traditional “push back” ceremony into Station 63 on Cross Prairie Parkway and will replace a 2007 model with 220,000 miles on it.

The placement of the new engine in service marks a significant investment into fire department expansion, according to the newspaper which also reported officials have approve the construction of three new fire station and a new aerial was delivered to Kissimmee in September.