Fire company finance chairman Frank Baxter asked council, on behalf of the fire company, to consider covering this year's payment on a loan that financed upgraded radios for the fire company.  

Baxter told borough council that the fire company applied through the borough for a loan from Montgomery County to finance the purchase of 32 new digital radios for firefighters. The total loan for the fire company was $182,140 which divides into five payments of $36,428, and it's one of those five payments the fire company is asking the borough to consider covering.

According to TFD, the crew at Station 11 was cooking dinner Sunday evening when they received an emergency call. When the firefighters returned to the station, they noticed that smoke filled the kitchen and a fire was on the stove.  

The crew quickly extinguished the blaze, but the station near Broadway Boulevard and Alvernon Way received some damage. Authorities said the fire damaged kitchen cabinets and the room’s ceiling. The main station also received smoke damage.

“This unfortunate accident carries the important lesson of making sure that cooking food is not left unattended,” TFD officials said in a press release. “If it can happen to firefighters, with our focus on fire prevention, it can happen to anyone.”

Tucson Fire said 32 percent of fire incidents around the United States are caused by cooking fires.

The firefighter, Jawaan Hunter, was taken to North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo after the accident, Chickasaw County Fire Coordinator Jonathan Blankenship.

Hunter is in stable condition. 

The accident happened on County Road 406 when a deer ran onto the road and in front of the fire truck, according to the Blankenship.

According to Agawam Fire Chief Alan Sirois, the trucks were a product of weeks of design by firefighters and months of construction at a Wisconsin plant. 

The trucks, which were blessed and unveiled Wednesday, will serve the town for more than 20 years. One of the trucks will be located at the Agawam Fire Headquarters on Main Street and the other truck will be kept at Station 2 at the Springfield Street location.