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LORDS VALLEY - To enhance their training, volunteer firefighters at the Pike County Training Center will now have a new engine with which to train. The Delaware Township Fire Company of Dingmans Ferry donated a 1993 engine, that Jordan Wisniewski, the training and operations manager said is a pumper that supplies water to other apparatuses.
The engine can carry 1,000 gallons of water. The Delaware Township Fire Company had two engines. The one they gave to the center had been for sale for awhile, but there were no “serious bids,” said Wisniewski. Consequently, the department was “more than kind to us,” Wisniewski stated.
The pumper has been refurbished. Fire engines can be quite old, as one at the center was from 1983 and was later refurbished in 1991. There are other fire apparatuses 40 years old, that he said some stations actually have in service or use for parades.
The engine that was given to the center, while it is refurbished, Wisniewski said doesn’t have all of the modern day technologies. He said that is okay because a lot of the safety features cause problems and having an older truck for training is just fine.
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