After a successful grant from the Hundred Club of Genesee, Shiawasee and Lapeer Counties, thermal imaging cameras will now be on every Flint Fire Department engine. The $5,200 grant allowed the department to buy four thermal imaging cameras, the city said in a statement.

Thermal imaging cameras detect emitted heat and energy and are a tool firefighters use to locate where fire is at, officials said.

Assistant Chief of Special Services Scott Pertuis said the station is being remodeled in a two-part series. The exterior of the building is being renovated now, and the exterior renovation will begin once that is completed.

The 9,000 square foot building is located at 865 White Mountain Highway, just up the street from the 65-year-old station it will replace. The old building no longer met building and safety code. The new $2.7 million building was designed by the architectural firm of Cowan-Goudreault of Concord, and Eckman Construction of Bedford was responsible for the build.

The $780,000 vehicle from Pierce Manufacturing Co., now the department's Truck 2, gleamed in the afternoon sunlight inside headquarters after its arrival on Friday. Delivery was expected a week ago, but was delayed three times by snowstorms.

The 2014 model has a 100-foot ladder, which operates differently than the previous Truck 2. Firefighters will be trained to use the ladder by a Wisconsin-based engineer over four days beginning Feb. 27, he said. Various equipment, already in the department's stock, will be installed in early- to mid-March. Czerwinski said the truck would be road-ready after that.