The new Sleaford station is part of a £6m project, approved by local councillors and county councillors in 2015, which will also include office space for council staff to move from their Riverside offices next to NKDC’s offices. Richard Hunter, locality manager for East Midlands Ambulance Service (EMAS), said: “This is an exciting venture for the emergency services in Lincolnshire. “Residents will be aware that our station on Kesteven Street is old and as a result is getting very expensive to run and maintain. EMAS is a mobile healthcare provider treating patients in their home, at the scene of an incident and en route to hospital if further treatment is required. The majority of our time therefore is spent away from the current ambulance station.

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The following is from a report ccovering an apparatus rollover involving an wildland fire apparatus:

On 27 August 2017, a Type 6 contract engine was conducting structure triage assessments while assigned to the Miller Complex in southwestern Oregon, managed by a Type 1 Incident Management Team (IMT). The crew had just resumed their trip after a short break when the driver came too close to the edge of the roadway and rolled down a steep embankment into a shallow creek.

The engine driver was not wearing his seatbelt and was seriously injured. Although not ejected, the driver was partially pinned underneath the engine, and partially submersed in the creek. The other two engine crewmembers were seat-belted, received minor injuries, and tried to radio for help.

White crashed into a fire engine on Wednesday at W. 43rd Street and N. Capitol Avenue.

When questioned by police, White said he did not have a license.

White was also wanted for driving while suspended with priors, records show.

 It will provide new energy-efficient light tubes, overhead doors, swamp coolers, technology upgrades, an American with Disabilities Act-compliant entrance and breezeway and an Environmental Protection Agency-required oil separator.

“Although many of the renovations are designed to improve the energy efficiency and ever-increasing maintenance costs of the aging facility, there are other improvements that will address facility access and safety issues,” Nicholson said.

The city has allocated $565,000 for the improvements in this fiscal year’s budget.

The 12,000-square-foot fire station has four garages for trucks and ambulances, along with living quarters for staff who work multiple day shifts.

Aldermen included the $425,000 expenditure in the 2018 fiscal year budget, but the truck will come at no cost to taxpayers. Instead, the City will follow the same blueprint as seven years ago -- the last time the fire department obtained a new truck -- and borrow the money from the bank on a 10-year note and pay the annual debt service with funds received from a yearly insurance rebate received from the state, according to City Clerk Shelly Ferguson.

The new truck will be a pumper -- or "engine" -- said assistant chief David Wicker, replacing a 21-year-old truck. The last time the OSFD purchased a new truck was in 2010 -- also a pumper, meaning the department will have two pumper trucks less than 10 year old.