Richfield City's truck represents a $620,000 investment in the community. The vehicle was purchased using a 50/50 grant/loan package from the Utah Permanent Community Impact Fund Board. The CIB funding package was approved in October 2014.

Once it's in service, the new fire engine will become Richfield City's, as well as Sevier County's, primary fire response vehicle.

The new trucks features include a front sprayer, a 1,000 gallon water system and other assets on the truck will help enhance the department's abilities to respond to fires and other emergencies.

The price tag for the vehicle also includes new extrication equipment for automobile accidents.

The truck that is currently used as the primary response vehicle is approximately 20 years old. 

Pierce Manufacturing -- a company that has been building fire response equipment since 1917 -- assembled the new vehicle based on specifications provided by local firefighters. The custom construction took nearly a year to complete.

Volunteer firefighters traveled to Pierce's plant in Appleton, Wis., and drove the new truck back to its home in Richfield.

For more information, view richfieldreaper.com

 

 

 

West Palm Beach (FL) police have released surveillance footage of someone reportedly shooting at a parked fire truck from a passing SUV and shooting on November 28.

 

The incident occurred outside a supermarket.

 

No one was hurt in the shooting. Police believe someone fired at the fire apparatus from inside the SUV while it was driving past the truck, but it isn't clear exactly where the shots came from.

 

More information at http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/news/crime-law/west-palm-beach-police-release-video-of-fire-truck/npdjd/.

One adult and several children were taken to a hospital Sunday evening after a crash involving a fire truck, according to the Phoenix Fire Department.

Fire officials said a fire truck and two other vehicles collided on North 43rd Avenue around 7 p.m.

Investigators said the fire truck was responding to an apartment fire and had its lights and sirens activated when one a Jeep Cherokee turned in front of it. The truck was headed south in the northbound lanes at the time of the crash, officials said.

Officials said the woman driving a Jeep Cherokee failed to yield, crashing into a bus stop bench and another vehicle. The woman and one of the four children in her vehicle suffered serious but non-life-threatening injuries.

For more information, view www.abc15.com

 

Fire crews in Centre County were out on a call when another accident happened and it involved one of their own trucks.

The Alpha Fire Company was responding to a crash along Interstate 99 near the Grays Woods exit.

About 20 minutes later, a car driving near the scene of the crash, lost control and slid into the back of one of the fire trucks.

The people inside the car were taken to Mount Nittany Medical Center before being transferred to the trauma center in Altoona. No one from the crew was injured.

For more information, view www.wearecentralpa.com

 

Orcas Island Fire and Rescue Chief Mik Preysz was confirmed as official Fire and Rescue Chief by the OIFR Board of Commissioners on November 19 (retroactive to October 16) after a six-month period as Interim Chief following the resignation of former Chief Kevin O'Brien last spring. A career Deputy Sheriff, Firefighter, and Paramedic for nearly 39 years, Preysz has refined his leadership in those roles.
- PUB DATE: 12/7/2015 1:18:25 PM - SOURCE: San Juan Islands' Sounder