DeSoto (LA) Fire District officials are seeking information on the whereabouts of a man wanted for vandalizing a parish fire truck earlier this month, reports ktbs.com.

Officials say Harley Clay Giecek and an accomplice illegally entered a DeSoto Fire District No. 8 station in Carmel and spray-painted graffiti on the inside and outside of an apparatus. Damage was also done on the inside, which rendered the truck inoperable.

Police officials already have one suspect in custody—Daisy Patrice Solis, 18, who’s charged with simple burglary and two counts of simple criminal damage to property.

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Weymouth Fire Department is planning to reopen a fire station that was closed due to budget constraints more than a decade ago, reports The Patriot Ledger.

Due to a national recession and town-wide budget constrains, the fire station was downsized to an administration headquarters in 2008.

Since coming into office, the current administration has added seven new firefighters and funded another five firefighters who were hired with temporary grant money. The town received a second federal grant in March of 2020, which provides more than $559,000 to cover a portion of personnel expenses for four new firefighters.

The Southington Fire Department’s Station 5 will close for a month for renovations, reports Patch.com.

Fire department personnel and equipment will be temporarily relocated to Station 3. The Station 5 is slated to reopen in September.