By Lindsay Dye

Pierce Job #33450

Truck 505 began service with the Flower Mound (TX) Fire Department on July 18, 2020. This unit is the first tractor-drawn aerial in the history of the department. Flower Mound joins Dallas and Irving as the only cities in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area to utilize tillers in their fleets. There are other cities in the Metroplex that have tillers on order.

The cab and chassis are the Velocity model with seating for six. A Coleman Mach 8 Roughneck mounted on the cab roof provides auxiliary cooling and heating for the cab, and a Danhard A/C unit provides cooling for the tiller cab. An E

The Boiling Springs (SC) Fire District recently dedicated its new 2021 Pierce Enforcer 107’ Ascendant Ladder. The truck and its equipment cost $1,535,657; its expected service life is approximately 25 years.

The ceremony was open to the public and took place at Station 14, located at 228 South Batesville Road.

The apparatus comes with a 1,500-gallon-per-minute pump will serve as both a ladder truck and a heavy rescue unit.

Ameren, Mo., recently donated a $1 million, state-of-the-art truck to the St. Louis (MO) Fire Department, reports kmov.com. The new apparatus took about 10 months to design and then another year to build.

The apparatus is used to battle underground fires; it sprays CO2 under manhole covers, quickly extinguishing electrical fires. It can also hook up to another truck to spray foam on chemical fires.

“Although ceremony was this morning, the truck has already been used in two underground fires downtown and at the Affton chemical plant fire back in April,” local resident Mark Griffin wrote on Twitter.

It can also hook up to another truck to spray foam on chemical fires. Although ceremony was this morning, the truck has already been used in two underground fires downtown and at the Affton chemical plant fire back in April. pic.twitter.com/aT6JJdkqCe

— Mark Griffin (@mgriffin_kmov) June 2, 2021

Pomfret-Teago (VT) Fire Department officials recently were granted approximately $143,000 from the department’s apparatus capital fund to buy a new Ford F550 mini-pumper, reports TheVermontStandard.com.

The new apparatus will replace its 34-year-old predecessor.

The department raised $132,000 by itself, and, with all the equipment, the mini-pumper will cost about $275,000.

The Amarillo (TX) Fire Department recently launched its third paramedic engine.

Housed at Station 7 by Grand Street and Amarillo Boulevard, the engine provides paramedic-level advanced life support care to patients.

“This cooperative initiative between AFD and AMS (Amarillo Medical Services) provides advanced equipment and medications for all three of AFD’s Paramedic Engines,” the department wrote on Facebook. “The additional equipment and medications provide the tools for our paramedic members to quickly provide advanced life-saving interventions and streamline the transfer of care to AMS.”