At the Brooksville City Council meeting on Jan. 9, fire department officials showed off their new $260,000 fire truck in front of the entrance to city hall, suncoastnews.com reported.

The new mini pumper, designated Attack-61, was built by Rosenbauer on a Ford F-550 chassis with a 6.7 Powerstroke diesel and has seating for three personnel, Brooksville Fire Department said in a Facebook post.

It’s not in service yet, a fire official said, because it needs to have equipment installed, but the combination of a Ford commercial chassis and the rear part made by a company in South Dakota soon will be helping with fires and paramedic calls, the report said.

It’s replacing a 20-year-old brush truck, according to the report.

It has a 300-gallon water tank and can be hooked to a hydrant or another truck for more water, and can go into smaller places than a regular fire truck, the report said.

The Hampden Township Volunteer Fire Company on Jan. 24 formally accepted a grant in the amount of $10,932.99 from Energy Transfer, which aided in the purchase of equipment to enhance the organization’s firefighting capabilities, PennLive.com reported.

Energy Transfer is one of the largest energy logistics companies in the country, with approximately 3,000 miles of pipeline infrastructure and gathering systems located in Pennsylvania, a press release from the township said.

The Reeves Foundation awarded $1,311,363.50 to 56 local organizations last year, TimesReporter.com reported.

The nonprofit was founded in 1966 by businessman Samuel J. Reeves Jr. with funding in part from his two sisters, Helen and Jane, and wife, Margaret, the report said. The foundation’s emphasis is on health agencies, with grants also available for youth agencies, education and public administration, according to the report. Priority is given to capital improvement projects, and requests within Tuscarawas County.

The foundation has handed out $40.9 million since inception, the report said.

The 2022 fire department grant recipients, amounts and grant purposes are:

• York Township Fire Department: $6,480, thermal-imaging camera.
• Uhrichsville Fire Department: $28,583, repair refinish floors/new grating.
• Mineral City Volunteer Fire Department: $45,446.46, dive rescue equipment.

We are now seeing what firefighters saw as they worked to keep downtown Bedford from going up in flames on Friday. ABC13 received helmet camera footage from the fire department that shows how crews got the fire at the Sister to Sister Custom Catering and Café under control in 50 minutes on Friday. Crews fought the fire from the ground and the rooftops.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WSET-TV ABC 13 Lynchburg

Amid warnings that Chicago Fire Department paramedics are "taking a literal beating at the hands of their patients," a City Council committee on Monday answered the alarm. The Committee on Public Safety unanimously approved an ordinance championed by Ald. Matt O'Shea (19th) at the behest of the Chicago Firefighters Union Local 2.
- PUB DATE: 1/31/2023 12:00:00 AM - SOURCE: WLS-TV ABC 7 Chicago