The Colorado Springs (CO) Fire Department (CSFD) is donating a 75-foot aerial to its sister city in Nuevo Casas Grandes, Mexico, reports krdo.com.

The apparatus went out of commission when CSFD got a new aerial truck about a year ago, but it still works and it will give Nuevo Casas Grandes a new vantage point when fighting fires.

This marks the 10th donation from CSFD to the department in Nuevo Casas Grandes, but the first aerial truck it’s ever donated. Crews from Nuevo Casas Grandes arrived in Colorado Springs on Wednesday night and are training on the truck at CSFD Station 1 before driving it down to Mexico.

Colorado Springs and Nuevo Casas Grandes have been sister cities since 1996. In 2019, firefighters from Nuevos Casas Grandes joined CSFD for a high-angle training session in North Cheyenne Cañon.

Jeffrey McCants, accused of stealing a marked fire vehicle from a Prichard (AL) Fire-Rescue station, was arrested Wednesday, reports foxtv10.com. McCants, who said he stole the apparatus because God told him to, has a criminal record.

Surveillance video shows McCants walking inside Central Station on Turner Road, sliding into the 2009 Crown Victoria, and then slowly backing out of the station. He confessed to the theft as police were taking him to jail. He’s being held at Mobile County Metro Jail on charges of first-degree theft and first-degree burglary.

In 2014, a judge in Bay County, Fl., sentenced him to three years and four months in prison for grand theft auto of a silver 2005 Toyota Tacoma. In addition, authorities charged him with first-degree arson in 2006; that charge was dropped. The jail log also shows several misdemeanor arrests over the years, ranging from criminal mischief to harassing communications to arson.

The City of Wilder (KY) will host a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new station, located at 522 Licking Pike, on Saturday at 4 p.m., reports rcnky.com. The station has been functional since fall of 2020, but, due to COVID-19, a proper ribbon-cutting ceremony was delayed.

The 14,000-square-foot station is equipped with administrative offices, living quarters, four apparatus bays, a vehicle exhaust removal system, frequent ambient air changeover, separation of the station into zones, decontamination areas, and other features that are designed to reduce post-incident and daily exposure to carcinogens.

The facility replaces the two existing stations, located at the north and south ends of the city.

E-ONE—Newton (MA) Fire Department pumper. Typhoon with 12-inch vista roof cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Hale Qflo 1,250-gpm pump; 780-gallon polypropylene water tank; Harrison 6-kW generator; severe-duty dash package; “Clean Cab” features with active air purification system in cab. Dealer: Mark MacDonald, Greenwood Emergency Vehicles, North Attleboro, MA.

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