250K price tag is $150K less than what CFD was budgeting for purchase in 2018 At a special meeting this week, the Crookston City Council approved the Crookston Fire Department's planned purchase of a 2002 platform truck to replace its 40-year old aerial ladder truck.
The CFD sets aside money every year for future truck purchases, and was anticipating the purchase of a similar truck in 2018, at an estimated cost of $400,000. But when the CFD's Dan Crane came across the 2002 American LaFrance 93-foot Platform truck while surfing the web and saw it was available for $250,000, the CFD jumped at the opportunity.
The CFD has one of only two aerial ladder/platform trucks in Polk County, and the 2002 truck has a ladder than extends eight feet longer than the CFD's current, 1977 truck.