The plans for Station 10—which would be located on the east side of Columbia (MO), at the intersection of East Richland Road and East St. Charles Road—sit as a bone of contention with several property owners in the area, reports columbiamissourian.com.

Many local, angry property owners Wednesday evening attended an interested-parties meeting regarding the city’s plan to turn their land into a fire station.

They aired their disdain with how the city has encroached on their land in the past, some of which was close to the proposed area for the fire station, according to the report.

The plan is still in its planning stages; the land for Station 10 has not yet been acquired, and the next step will be to take this plan to City Council to pursue property acquisition, officials say.

Fire Apparatus reported in August that Columbia is putting Station 11 in southwest Columbia, and officials expect to break ground on that later this year.

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The Desloge (MO) Fire Department (DFD) has stepped up to help the Marquand Fire Department (MFD) after the latter lost its tanker truck to an accident a couple of months prior, reports dailyjournalonline.com.

On a call one night, an MFD crew member was turning the truck around when it died. He lost control, it flipped, and rolled down a 50-foot embankment, the report says. The 2,0000-gallon tanker was destroyed, but the firefighter suffered just two small cuts.

DFD just happened to have a 1992 tanker and a 1987 pumper lying around that weren’t in use. The report says the Board of Aldermen voted to wave the bidding process and approve a sale of the two trucks to Marquand for $15,000.

A truck stolen from an occupied Albany (OR) Fire Department station last weekend was recovered in Eugene.

The department says a suspect entered Station 13 off Three Lakes Road on Sunday night via an unlocked window in its weight room. A utility truck was stolen, tagged with graffiti, damaged, and left in Eugene.

Five crew members were sleeping at the station when the theft occurred. Police officials Tuesday made an arrest in the case.

After the Bluffton Township (SC) Fire District opened its new $3.5 million Station 31 on Tuesday, it christened the facility with its first call on Wednesday morning.

The department says it put out the fire in about 30 minutes, and nobody was hurt.

The station—in the works for several years now, according to officials—is 8,000 square feet and also serves as home to Beaufort County EMS.

“Station 31 was relocated from its original location on May River Road to better serve our community and to give personnel a more modernized facility,” the department said on Facebook. “The construction of this station also provides Beaufort County EMS the ability to house a Medic Unity in this area which will improve response times to medical emergencies. This was a 3.5 million dollar project and we thank our community for their support. Station 31 is located at 31 Red Barn Road in the New River Side area.”