A crash involving a fire truck injured three people and closed down traffic, reports WTOL 11.

The incident involves a passenger vehicle and a fire truck. The car struck a utility pole after hitting the fire truck and two occupants had to be extricated. After the crash, firefighters began to care for the passengers in the car.

A fire official said that there is extensive damage to the fire truck.

Bardstown’s new fire station is officially open, reports WDRB.com.

The original fire station will still be in service but will now be considered Fire House #2. Due to COVID-19, the grand opening was delayed despite the new station being in operation since last fall.

The fire station has six bedrooms, three bathrooms, three shower rooms and a designated weight room.

The new fire station is cutting response times and will help better serve the community.

Dallas Fire Station No. 19 was demolished last year and construction to rebuild the facility is expected to begin soon, reports Advocate Magazine.

The fire station was damaged during storms in 2019.

The building is planned for 8,400 square feet and is expected to cost $4 million. Among its staff is an urban search and rescue team, one of the special operations functions of Dallas Fire-Rescue.

By Alan M. Petrillo

The McAdoo (PA) Fire Company was in need of replacing a 1993 New Lexington tanker and a 2006 KME engine and decided to build a single new rig that could function as both engine and tanker. But then a light bulb went off overhead, and they chose to make the new vehicle a triple threat by adding battery-operated hydraulic tools to the mix to make the vehicle a pumper-tanker-rescue.

“McAdoo Fire Company merged with two other volunteer fire companies in 2016 into one entity,” says Bob Leshko, McAdoo’s chief. “We cover 130 square miles of rural and residential area with a large, seven-business industrial park, four warehouses in another industrial park, and another four warehouses, each of 1 million square feet, in the planning stages. The hydrants in our coverage area are on a gravity-fed system, so sometimes water is limited, which is why we wanted a big water tank on our new pumper-tanker-rescue.”

The vehicle McAdoo had KME build is on a Panther LFD chassis and cab with a 16-inch raised roof and a 3/16-inch-thick aluminum body, says Ryan Slane, KME’s Southeast region sales manager. “McAdoo is only 20 miles away from the KME factory in Pennsylvania, and the fire company said they needed a Swiss Army knife-type vehicle that could function as a pumper, tanker, and rescue. They wanted to do more with a single truck.” The vehicle is powered by a 450-horsepower (hp) Cummins L9 diesel engine, and an Allison 3000 EVS transmission, he notes, and has a wheelbase of 226 inches, an overall length of 34 feet 7 inches, and an overall height of 9 feet 10 inches.

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