Oak Grove Assistant Chief Paul Summers said the station will feature four bays. It will serve as a satellite station where firefighters can go to get equipment and respond more quickly to calls in the southern portion of their service area.

The lower half of the district lies south of 41st Street and north of 51st Street between 241st E. Ave. and the Verdigris River.

Oak Grove’s existing station, built in 1996, is located at 395 S. 273rd E. Ave. There are 30 men and women serving with the volunteer fire department.

The new engine, which will replace the old Engine No. 1, was made possible by a $405,000 federal grant the fire department received in 2014. The city of Sycamore chipped in a small amount to cover the difference between the grant and the cost of the engine. Polarek said the new engine, which took just about a year to build, was necessary because the old 1979 Mack engine was past its service life.

Sycamore Mayor Ken Mundy said the department and city were blessed with the grant because it saved the taxpayers a lot of money.

“The ’79 Mack served us well, but this is an opportunity to provide a state-of-the-art engine with new technology, and that’s a wonderful thing for the city,” he said.

Roseville received $407,058, including a 10 percent match from the city, to purchase the new fire engine, which will replace a 1993 engine with 98,000 miles and 7,855 hours on it. With the equivalent of one hour of use equaling 11 miles, the vehicle has the equivalent of 358,268 miles on it, Holland said. The new engine will be located at the Frazho Road fire station.

The city also received a grant of $118,500, including a 10 percent match, for a physical fitness program for the Fire Department.

The program will pay for six of the department’s 41 firefighters to be trained as personal trainers, and also will pay for a nutritionist to come in and teach members of the department how to cook healthier food for themselves.

The firefighters will receive physical examinations to assess their fitness levels and personalized physical fitness programs. Plus, the grant will replace fitness equipment at each of the department’s two stations with equipment tailored to address the needs of firefighters.

The trucks, also called "patrols," can carry up to 200 gallons of water and 10 gallons of fire-resistant gel or foam. Traditional Type-A fire engines hold the same amount of gel, but carry up to 500 gallons of water.

The smaller vehicles, which have a cab like a large pickup, will be part of the first-response units at volunteer or reserve stations, Cal Fire San Diego Unit and County Fire Chief Tony Mecham said in a statement.

The smaller Type-6 trucks, custom-built for San Diego County, cost nearly $260,000 apiece, roughly half the cost of the full-size engines. The county's general fund will pay for two of the new trucks, and federal grant money will cover the other two.

When not dispatched to wildfires, the new vehicles -- which carry the same lifesaving equipment as the larger trucks -- will stay busy on everyday calls including traffic collisions, medical aid and building fires.