"A truck like this and everything on it would have cost us way over $100,000. We don't have that kind of money. It would have taken years to get that much money...so we could afford the $10,000," says Swisher.

The new fire truck will eventually go to a new subdivision outside Goreville called "The Peninsula."

Victoria's Emergency Management Commissioner Craig Lapsley said one of the trucks was burnt after flames came over the top of it but no one was badly hurt.

Commissioner Lapsley said the fire was a warning for the season ahead.

"We always said that will be late December, January and February will be the critical period and that will play out to be exactly that," he said.

"If we did have a fire in Hancock, they would respond," he said.

With the new pumper truck, Dennis said the department will have three vehicles, including a 2005 pumper and a 2000 ladder truck, which also carries water.

As the other trucks reach their expected age of effective use, Dennis said the city will consider replacing them.

The new truck will hold 1,000 gallons of water and 25 gallons of foam concentrate, which is mixed with water. It will have a 1,250 gallons-per-minute pump with a compressed air foam system, a cab, which can seat up to five firefighters in full gear, 5,000-watt generator, which will provide electricity for power tools and a telescoping light tower, which will rise 20 feet above the truck and will rotate 360 degrees.

Hoses aren't part of the package for the new truck, either, Dennis said.

"We have all of our hoses," he said.

Dennis said he and other members of the department have taken trips to Wisconsin to see the progress of the truck construction.