The McLean County (KY) Western Fire Department in Beech Grove recently added a 2021 Freightliner 3,000-gallon pumper-tanker to its fleet, reports messenger-inquirer.com.
The apparatus—which can pump 1,000 gallons per minute and boasts a 10,000-gallon draft tank—was purchased with help from a $255,238 FEMA grant the department received last September, the report says.
It will replace a 1978 Chevrolet truck which was designed as a milk truck and had a top speed of about 40 mph, officials say.
The apparatus was assembled by McGinley Fire Apparatus (IN) in about a year, and its total cost was about $268,000, which includes a lifetime warranty, according to the report.