At the the Godfrey Fire Protection District (GFPD) board meeting, village officials presented a $50,000 check, reports The Telegraph.

In 2018, Godfrey village trustees voted unanimously to provide $500,000 to purchase the new fire truck and apparatus in exchange for a piece of land.

Ahmeek Fire Department is supplementing a United States Department of Homeland Security grant through GoFundMe to purchase a fire truck, reports Keweenaw Report.

The fire department posted to GoFundMe, “Last summer, we received a FEMA grant for a new rescue truck, totaling $173,000.00. We are $45,000 short of the total purchase price. This new vehicle is replacing a 1985 pickup truck that is a mechanical nightmare and unsafe. The rescue truck will carry a vast array of rescue equipment for various types of emergencies and it will respond throughout the region when requested.”

Firefighters took advantage of cool and moist weather on Wednesday to make additional progress on the Schneider Springs Fire in the north while preparing for the potential of a return to drier conditions this weekend and into next week. A bunch of new firefighters are arriving on the scene Thursday.
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Fire crews stopped a second-alarm fire at about three acres before it had a chance to damage a nearby trailer near the Chelan Hills Acres Tracts development about a mile south of the Beebe Bridge on Wednesday. Kurt Blanchard, Douglas County Fire District 2 fire marshal, said on-scene firefighters believe the brush fire started from a burn barrel.
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The Harvard (MA) Fire Department will soon be asking the town to approve funding for a new combination aerial/pumper truck, reports harvardpress.com.

Swayed by a state grant that would fund 44% of the total estimated cost (about $1.7 million) for the apparatus, the Capital Planning and Investment Committee (CPIC) recently voted unanimously to recommend the purchase. The remainder would be funded by excluded debt, which has to pass at both a mid-October town meeting and at the ballot box on November 2, according to the report.

Earlier: Harvard (MA) Voters to Consider Debt for Fire Dept. Aerial

Fire officials say the new apparatus would replace the 42-year-old tower purchased by the department in 2015 for about $20,000. Officials say that that truck responds to about 16% of calls, but the new one will respond to about 47% of emergencies.

If the purchase does go through, the department will not drop any of its existing pumpers, the report says. Instead, when their time is up they’ll be put in reserve status for six years then replaced.