The transmission is the start of three hours of Fire Department communications released by the county Friday morning. County spokesman Erik Pappa said some communications were removed from the recording due to Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act privacy concerns.

The bursts of radio communication captured how paramedics responded to the unfolding chaos that killed 58 at the festival and injured more than 500.

The fire vehicle had its emergency lights and siren activated and was heading north on Cherry Street en route to an emergency when the driver of the other vehicle, identified by police as 28-year-old Lawrence Johnson, of Syracuse, struck the fire vehicle, Sackett said. Johnson was driving west on East Fayette Street at the time of the crash.

The 2017 Ford F-550 chasiss engine can carry 19,500 pounds including a crew of five firefighters, hand tools, equipment and more than 1,000 feet of fire hose.

“This brush engine will replace a 30-year-old engine in our fleet and with the additional seating for firefighters, we will be better able to serve the public by more than doubling our response capabilities,” said Fire Chief Sam Phillips.

The fire district purchased the fire engine for $134,300 with existing capital funds budgeted last year without any additional voter-approved levy or bonds, according to Phillips.

Cascade Fire & Safety based in Yakima built the brush engine.

“This is one portion of our fleet-replacement program which the [fire district] commissioners approved in 2015,” Phillips said.

For years, the city of Valle Hermoso, a community with approximately 65,000 residents, had been making do with an aging fire truck donated to them by the City of San Benito decades ago. It was the only fire truck the fire department had, and when it ultimately broke beyond repair, it left the already underequipped department in a poor position to help their community during emergencies.

Enter the City of Port Isabel, which had fairly recently mothballed a 25-year-old fire truck that was in good working order. Modernized regulations meant the City couldn’t sell or donate the truck to another community here in the U.S., but for a town in Mexico, the vehicle was a beacon of hope.