This is the second AFG award for the company. It was awarded $49,852 in February 2010.  

The Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program awards grants directly to fire departments and emergency services to support their efforts to protect the communities they serve. The Fiscal Year 2017 program will award approximately $345 million in competitive grants to first responder organizations across the country to obtain critically needed equipment, protective gear, emergency vehicles, training, and other resources required to protect the public and emergency personnel from fire and related hazards.

Construction on the “regional asset,” as it’s noted in a Fire Department news release, began this summer with ground preparations as the training tower itself was constructed offsite and shipped in. Parts of the facility began arriving last week.  

It will take about one week to build, followed by “a few weeks of additional work,” including electrical and fire sprinkler installments before the facility is fully operational, but the “bulk” of the construction is slated for completion this week.

The mid-mounting ladder also opens up more compartment space for the crew, so it has room for equipment it could not carry before, which limits the need for additional apparatus to respond.

 

Once the truck is in service, the old one goes to a wholesaler that bought it for $75,000. The last apparatus that the district acquired was a pumper engine in 2013.