Police said they arrested 45-year-old Gregory Bomba, of Newtown, after an investigation into a fire in the back parking lot of Echo Hose Company #1 during a past captain’s dinner on Feb. 3.

Investigators determined that a fire had been set in the back of a pickup that was parked abutting the firehouse at 379 Coram Ave., police said.

The fire happened last week at the Coronaca Fire Station in Greenwood County.

Greenwood County Fire Coordinator Steve Holmes confirmed SLED was asked to investigate the fire at the station, located on Willard Road.

Holmes said the investigation isn't because the fire is suspicious in nature, but because it was a volunteer department and they want a third party to determine the cause.

The tanker brings the number of trucks for the department to three tankers provided by the county and a brush truck which was paid for by Wagram.

The pumper is the newest truck in the replacement rotation for Scotland County Fire Departments and cost the county $334,500. Four engines have been purchased so far including one for North Laurinburg and one for Stewartsville fire departments.

“It’s part of a 12-year plan for every department to get trucks,” said County Manager Kevin Patterson. “We’ll get one truck a year for the next eight years. By the end every department will wind up two new trucks.”

The three brush trucks are on a military-grade chassis, and they also have thick, military grade tires. Smith said that allows the brush trucks to go further into heavily wooded areas, and the tires are guaranteed to allow the truck to keep driving below 50 miles per hour if they go flat.

The fire district, which provides services in Atherton, East Palo Alto, Menlo Park and unincorporated San Mateo County, announced March 2 that it acquired a 2,050-square-foot, single-story home at 2110 Valparaiso Ave., directly behind Fire Station 4 at 3322 Alameda De Las Pulgas, for $3.2 million. The home is on a 6,000-square-foot lot in unincorporated Menlo Park.

The district’s board of directors since June 2017 has authorized spending $14.4 million in district funds to purchase property adjacent to its fire stations for expansions to offset population growth in its coverage area.

The district eventually plans to rebuild Fire Station 4, which was built in 1949 and is currently the district’s oldest facility in operation. Fire Chief Harold Schapelhouman said the purchase was a “strategic” move, because it will create a combined 28,560-square-foot parcel that will allow for a “code compliant, safer, modern, larger and more functional fire and emergency services facility,” according to the announcement.