“They’re going to try to get the truck on the road as soon as we leave,” Hutchison said. “When it gets here, it won’t have all the stuff on it. We will still have to go through a lot of training, but it will be here I’m hoping at the end of June.”

Howard told the panel about some of the extra equipment Hutchison had requested be installed on the truck.

“One of the extras is a larger water line going up the ladder itself,” Howard said. “The reason for that is the high rise and the hospital. We hope they never need it, but Chief Hutchison had asked for that.”

A decade ago, fire crews noticed the Genesee Fire Station was outdated and wasn’t able to house modern fire vehicles. The new station is projected to have twice as much space as the current building.

The total project will cost around $3.2 million over ten years through a bond the city passed in November 2017.