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Sam's Point (OK) VFD Receives Grant
Sam's Point (OK) VFD Receives Grant
Posted: Dec 20, 2017

Sam's Point (OK) VFD Receives Grant

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Sam's Point Volunteer Fire Department recently received the Oklahoma's Rural Fire Defense 80/20 Reimbursement Grant in the amount of $7,885. The grant program provides funding to rural fire departments serving a population of less than 10,000 for rural fire department equipment purchases or construction.

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The grants provide reimbursement of 80 percent of the total amount of the project. Grant recipients receive reimbursement only after the purchase or construction costs have been paid by the recipient, according to the Oklahoma Forestry Services website.

Sam’s Point Volunteer Fire Department, which is located three miles North West of Canadian, was one of 16 fire departments in Oklahoma to be awarded the grant. The grant will help purchase wildland gear and structure gear such as jackets, boots, gloves and other essential gear the firefighters can use.

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Glendale (CA) City Council Approves Fire Department Training Facility
Glendale (CA) City Council Approves Fire Department Training Facility
Posted: Dec 20, 2017

Glendale (CA) City Council Approves Fire Department Training Facility

Los Angeles Times

For nearly a decade, the Glendale Fire Department has been without a dedicated training facility where either current or prospective firefighters can simulate the high-heat and intense-smoke environments they would encounter during an emergency.

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Last week, the Glendale City Council unanimously approved a more than $700,000 project to design and build a Live Fire Modular Training Complex, also known as a “burn building,” for joint use by the city’s fire department and Glendale Community College’s Verdugo Fire Academy.  

Glendale-based engineering consultant United Engineering & Construction Inc. was awarded the contract to replace the 60-year-old concrete burn building, decommissioned in 2010, with a new facility constructed with steel shipping containers.

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Berwick (ME) Fire Station Project Moving Forward
Berwick (ME) Fire Station Project Moving Forward
Posted: Dec 20, 2017

Berwick (ME) Fire Station Project Moving Forward

Fosters

The project to potentially relocate the fire station outside the downtown core is moving forward.According to Berwick Town Manager Steve Eldridge, the firm chosen to handle the design phase, Port City Architecture, met last week with the fire department as part of a space-needs assessment.

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Space is the biggest issue with the current stations, including the fact that the space for hose drying does not have adequate ventilation, there is no drainage in the building and firefighters can’t get rid of waste water. As such, the trucks must be washed at the town’s Highway Department.  

Officials hope to wrap up site selection the early next year and get a proposal on the town ballot in June.

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Orange Beach (AL) Donates Surplus Fire Apparatus to Repton VFD
Orange Beach (AL) Donates Surplus Fire Apparatus to Repton VFD
Posted: Dec 20, 2017

Orange Beach (AL) Donates Surplus Fire Apparatus to Repton VFD

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Orange Beach donates surplus fire truck to Repton Volunteer Fire Dept. During the season of giving, it was fitting that a week before Christmas Repton Volunteer Fire Chief Joe Bartlett drove to Orange Beach with a few of his men to pick up a donated fire truck.

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During the season of giving, it was fitting that a week before Christmas Repton Volunteer Fire Chief Joe Bartlett drove to Orange Beach with a few of his men to pick up a donated fire truck. In November, the Orange Beach City Council agreed to donate the surplus 1992 KME Renegade Fire Truck and some small equipment to its longtime sister city, Repton, after Orange Beach received lackluster offers on GovDeals.com, an online auction site for government surplus. Two attempts to auction the fire truck through GovDeals resulted in a high bid of less than $6,000, which was below the city’s reserve price. As a result, Orange Beach Fire Chief Justin Pearce recommended donating the fire truck to the Repton VFD. “For what little we could have gotten when we tried to sell it on GovDeals,” Chief Pearce explained, “there’s so much more value in giving it to someone who can use it. It will benefit the citizens and firefighters up there.”
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W.S. Darley Builds AutoCAFS Fire Apparatus for Illinois Fire Department
W.S. Darley Builds AutoCAFS Fire Apparatus for Illinois Fire Department
Posted: Dec 20, 2017

W.S. Darley Builds AutoCAFS Fire Apparatus for Illinois Fire Department

special Delivery Alan M. Petrillo
 
When the Orangeville (IL) Fire Protection District needed a new front-line pumper-tanker set up with a compressed air foam system (CAFS), it turned to W.S. Darley & Co. for the new rig, based on the performance of a retrofitted Darley CAFS Orangeville had done on a previous pumper-tanker.

When the Orangeville (IL) Fire Protection District needed a new front-line pumper-tanker set up with a compressed air foam system (CAFS), it turned to W.S. Darley & Co. for the new rig, based on the performance of a retrofitted Darley CAFS Orangeville had done on a previous pumper-tanker.

CAFS Needs

Mel Wichman, Orangeville’s chief, says the fire district had a 1998 Firemaster Freightliner pumper-tanker retrofitted with a Darley CAFS in 2004. “We were very impressed with the capabilities of the Darley CAFS,” Wichman points out. “We also have an Odin CAFS skid unit on our 2007 GMC 5500 wildland light rescue, so we have a lot of experience using CAFS.” He adds, “We chose Darley to build our new CAFS pumper-tanker because they are great innovators with CAFS and excellent people to work with.”

1 The Orangeville (IL) Fire Protection District had W.S. Darley & Co. build this pumper-tanker on a Spartan Metro chassis and cab with seating for six firefighters, powered by a Cummins 450-horsepower ISL9 engine and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission. [Photos 1-5 courtesy of the Orangeville Fire (IL) Protection District.]

1 The Orangeville (IL) Fire Protection District had W.S. Darley & Co. build this pumper-tanker on a Spartan Metro chassis and cab with seating for six firefighters, powered by a Cummins 450-horsepower ISL9 engine and an Allison 3000 EVS automatic transmission. [Photos 1-5 courtesy of the Orangeville Fire (IL) Protection District.]

Neal Brooks, national sales manager of the apparatus division for Darley, says he had done some CAFS training with the department in the past. “Orangeville is basically a rural department with a very hilly topography with a lot of farms very close to the Wisconsin border,” Brooks notes. “It does a lot of mutual aid with surrounding areas and has had tremendous success with its first Darley CAFS unit. The department didn’t want to purchase two vehicles, so it chose a pumper-tanker that has more water than a traditional engine and the suppression capabilities of the Darley AutoCAFS.”

2 The pumper-tanker Darley built for Orangeville has a Darley Champion LDMBC 1,500-gpm single-stage pump, a PolyBilt™ copolymer body with integral 2,000-gallon water tank and 25-gallon foam cell, a FoamPro 2002 Class A foam system, and a Darley AutoCAFS 220-cfm rotary screw compressor.

2 The pumper-tanker Darley built for Orangeville has a Darley Champion LDMBC 1,500-gpm single-stage pump, a PolyBilt™ copolymer body with integral 2,000-gallon water tank and 25-gallon foam cell, a FoamPro 2002 Class A foam system, and a Darley AutoCAFS 220-cfm rotary screw compressor.

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