PITTSFIELD, Mass. - The city's front-line ladder truck is back. Tower 1, which has been in an upstate New York repair shop for the last seven weeks or so has returned to service. When the truck had gone out for a routine maintenance, heavy corrosion was found underneath and it wouldn't pass a third-party inspection.
It has been in the shop since.
Meanwhile, the city's reserve ladder, Truck 2 was supposed to be fill in while Tower 1 was being repaired. But that truck's stabilizers wouldn't retract and it had to be taken out of service.
Thus, the city has had no ladder truck since late November.
On Wednesday, firefighters received the call that Tower 1 was fully repaired and immediately went to pick it up. It was back in Pittsfield's headquarters by 4 p.m.
The city now has one ladder truck in service, and soon there will be two. The City Council earlier this month allocated an additional $200,000 to a previously approved $600,000 bond approval to
purchase a used 2014 Pierce Manufacturing Co. 100-foot aerial ladder truck, which had been used as a demonstrator model at trade shows for the company. The purchase price is $780,000.
Fire Chief Robert Czerwinski said on Monday that the truck was ordered and being driven from Wisconsin to Walpole for servicing this week — the icy weather in the Midwest slowed delivery by a day or so. As soon as it arrives in Walpole, Fire Department staff will inspect it to ensure it is what they expected and have it lettered.
"It's looking we'll have that in service by the end of January," Czerwinski said. "It should be pretty well set ... it is basically a new truck."
The chief
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About one year from its Dec. 8, 2015 groundbreaking ceremony, the revamped Fire Station No. 2 in Locust Grove recently hosted a ribbon-cutting ceremony. "The nearly 10,000 square foot, three-bay station is located at 35 Frances Ward Drive and features sleeping quarters for 10, kitchen and laundry facilities, a common living area, fitness room, staff offices and a meeting room," Henry County spokeswoman Melissa Robinson said in a statement.
“The new fire station is a replacement for the existing station, which was built by volunteers decades earlier.”
The Jan. 2 event attracted attendance by commissioners and city officials, she said.
Also at the dedication were members of the county department in charge of projects funded by a special purpose local option sales tax.
“The project was budgeted under SPLOST IV in the amount of $2,361,600 and is expected to be ready for use by the end of the month,” Robinson said.
The architect was Bill Howell with Marietta-based Howell Group, who also designed Fire Station No. 9 in Stockbridge, and the contractor was J.R. Bowman Construction of McDonough.
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The Vancouver man accused of robbing and killing a clerk at a Sifton area convenience store before lighting the building on fire was a frequent customer of the store, according to court documents filed in the case.
Mitchell Heng, 21, admitted to police that he went to the Oasis Market early Sunday morning to rob Amy Marie Hooser, the 47-year-old supervisor, court records state.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2017 10:43:29 AM - SOURCE: Vancouver Columbian
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Quick action on an increasingly snowy morning helped firefighters prevent a fire from spreading Friday morning at a house on McKinley Avenue.
At least five fire trucks responded the single-story structure at 1301 McKinley Avenue about 8:30 a.m. No one appeared to be inside the tan-colored house, where the exterior white trim and tall brick fireplace appeared to have been untouched by flames.
- PUB DATE: 1/20/2017 9:41:22 AM - SOURCE: Yakima Herald-Republic
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