After years of borrowing fire trucks from neighboring municipalities for calls and using extrication equipment “so outdated that it’s not capable of cutting materials and alloy metals,” said Chief Neil De Jesus, the department was approved for new fire trucks, rescue vehicles and extrication equipment Tuesday evening.

City leaders approved the purchase of two amulances — one will respond to the town of Highland Beach, which will cover the cost. They will also get two new rescue trucks and six new extrication units.

The total price tag is nearly $4 million and will take more than a year to get the new equipment, city officials said.

 The station on North Soncy Road will replace Station No. 3, a dirt-floored tin barn just down the road.

“Our stations are in bad shape,” Fitzpatrick said about the need to rebuild.

Potter County has six fire stations that are staffed with four paid firefighters and 70 volunteers.

All of the stations, except the Willow Creek station, are unmanned, meaning firefighters are not housed at the facility.

Questions surrounded the need for a new station with all the amenities.

Precinct 2 Commissioner Mercy Murguia was the lone vote against spending $2 million on a new station. She said she wasn’t against the idea of building a new station, but instead about how much money the county wanted to spend on it.

The driver refused treatment for any injuries, Mooresville Fire-Rescue Chief Curt Deaton said.