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Posted: May 5, 2017

Fire Truck Photo of the Day-Ferrara MVP Pumper

Ferrara's MVP features extra low cab step height, frame rail height crosslays, low hosebed, and lowered body height to make it easier to retrieve equipment. 

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Posted: May 4, 2017

Spokane: Activists and politicians pursue a series of long-shot gambits to prevent disaster

Every day, on average, nearly 200 tanker cars carry close to 6 million gallons of crude oil through Spokane. Each one of those cars can hold as much as three tanker trucks' worth of some of the most explosive crude in the country. Spokane serves as a bottleneck into the state for trains traveling from the east across the northern U.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2017 7:12:38 PM - SOURCE: The Inlander
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Posted: May 4, 2017

12-year-old Bellingham boy dies after apparent rope swing accident

A Bellingham boy has died from injuries he suffered days earlier in an accident on a rope swing, according to police. Benny Capp, 12, a seventh-grader at Kulshan Middle School, was flown to Seattle Children’s Hospital Saturday evening after a family member found him hanging from a rope swing outside a house in the Whatcom Falls neighborhood, said Bellingham Police Sgt.
- PUB DATE: 5/4/2017 5:13:53 PM - SOURCE: Bellingham Herald
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Posted: May 4, 2017

Groundbreaking Next Week for New Cottage Grove (MN) Fire Station

Cottage Grove is planning a May 9 groundbreaking ceremony for a new fire station. The $9 million project will be built at 8641 S. 80th St., on the site of the former Fire Station 2. The new station will be more than twice as big as the 45-year-old structure it is replacing.
It will feature 10 bays for fire vehicles and ambulances and seven dorm rooms for firefighters. Two conference rooms on the main floor will be available to the public.

The fire department will temporarily operate out of the old city hall, now the Business Enterprise Center.

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Posted: May 4, 2017

Ishpeming (MI) Looking to Buy New Fire Apparatus

Last week, the Ishpeming City Council moved forward with the idea of putting a millage on the ballot that would allow the fire department to purchase a new fire truck. Members of the fire department and the city council got an up close look Wednesday afternoon at a potential fire truck they could purchase.
"These fire trucks are very expensive. A regular pumper truck is in the neighborhood of $500,000," said fire chief Ed Anderson. "These ladder trucks in the 75-foot range are in the $750,000-$800,000 range," he added.
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