In addition to the $4.8 million loan, $1 million from the Fire and Rescue Levy Fund, $600,000 in donations held by the Orlean Fire Department and $595,066 previously spent or encumbered from the fire and levy will cover the cost.  

County supervisors, during their Dec. 14 meeting, also authorized the Warrenton-Fauquier Airport to apply for nearly $2.6 million in funds from the Virginia Department of Aviation to construct a new terminal. The county will provide about $1.7 million in local matching funds. A private donor is contributing $381,130 for geothermal, wall coating and rainwater harvesting.

The new 12,500 square-foot building will be built quickly and is expected to be completed by the fall of 2018, according to Shelby Fire Chief Mike Thompson.  

Mayor Steve Schag said funding of the "state-of-the-art" building is unique in that taxpayer money will not be used to construct it.  

Instead, the fire chief, mayor and Friends of the the Black Fork said they have three primary sources to reach their capital campaign goal during a press conference, Tuesday in Shelby.  

Schag said because Grant Milliron came to the the city and told them of his desire to build the new building with his own money, tax money is not involved.

Brian Daugbjerg, who owns Longview Scrap & Metal Co. with Doug Allen, said they don't know how the pumper ended up at their yard more than 30 years ago but was always advised by his father-in-law, the previous owner of the business, never to sell it.

 

"He would say it's the only thing here not for sale," Daugbjerg said. "We knew exactly what it was because we have some old historical photos of it in action sitting in downtown Marshall. We knew it was the city of Marshall's. We knew it was approaching over 100 years old now."  

Daugbjerg said they've told firefighters in the past that they would love to return the engine to Marshall in hopes it could someday be restored.

Fire Chief Tim McMullins said it can take up to 10 months for the custom-designed truck to be built in Ocala, Florida.  

"It will start as two rails and four wheels, and they will start building from there," McMullins said.

The old truck at Station 3 will become the city's reserve truck that will be used when one of the other pumpers must be taken out of service for repairs or maintenance.