After 22 years of service, firefighter and paramedic Todd Buzalsky has retired from Cowlitz 2 Fire and Rescue in Kelso. Public service is in Buzalsky’s blood: His father was a firefighter and his older brother is the battalion fire chief for the City of Longview. “It’s funny to look back at things,” his older brother Troy Buzalsky is quoted in a press release submitted to The Daily News.
- PUB DATE: 2/27/2021 5:20:37 AM - SOURCE: Longview Daily News

A Moses Lake firefighter’s foundation is doing some good well beyond the borders of Grant County. Mike Miner is the executive director of the Firefighters for Kids Foundation. The Firefighters for Kids Foundation was started in 2005 with volunteer firefighters visiting children’s hospitals in the Spokane area.
- PUB DATE: 2/26/2021 10:11:51 PM - SOURCE: iFiber One News Radio

Elko County, NV, Fire Protection District has a new brush truck and a rescue vehicle, both based on Ford F-550 cabs and chassis, in service, according to a report published by the Elko Daily Free Press.

The brush truck is a 2018 model which cost $193,000 and the rescue vehicle is a 2020 which cost $200,454, the paper reported.

The vehicles were upgraded with off-road suspension and are equipped with 400-gallon water tanks, 10-gallons of foam, have 125-gpm pumps and front monitors for wildland fires, according to the Elko Press report.

One of the apparatus be stationed in Clover Valley and the second will be in Spring Creek, according to the paper.

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City Councilors in Green, OH, have approved the purchase of a new 100-foot aerial platform at a recent meeting, according to a report published by CantoRep.com|The Repository.

The $1.3 million apparatus will be a Pierce Velocity heavy-duty platform aerial, according to the paper. Its final cost is less than the city’s first allocation of $1.5 million for the apparatus and the department will receive a $38,958 discount for prepaying the total cost of the apparatus before delivery.

Funds to pay for the aerial will be taken from the city’s ambulance billing and Nexus Pipeline funds, the paper reported.

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Firefighters in Neville, Saskatchewan, Canada, have started fundraising to replace a fire truck that bent in half during a call last fall and became in operable, according to a report published by SwiftCurrent Online.

While responding to a grass fire call last September, one of Neville’s apparatus became inoperable while carrying 1,200-gallons of water, the web site reported.

Since, firefighters have been looking for an affordable replacement and found a 1989 truck owned by local farmers, according to the report, which added the farmers agreed to sell the truck for what they paid for it after hearing the firefighters plight.

To pay for the truck and modifications to the station’s door to fit the apparatus inside, Neville firefighters are looking to raise $50,000, according to the web site.

The fire department recently started the fundraising in earnest, sending solicitation letters to residents and businesses, according to the report.

Typically, the department gets only one or two calls per year, but in 2020, they had 14 calls, 12 grass fires, one house fire and a pole fire, the web site reported.

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