City council recently approved $500,000 for the Belmar (NJ) Volunteer Hook and Ladder Fire Co. to purchase a 2021 Kenworth rescue truck, reports tapinto.net. Once it arrives in December, the apparatus will be housed at the department’s 11th Avenue station.

The apparatus will replace the 36-year-old Ford rescue truck that was deemed unsafe and unfixable during a maintenance inspection last September. Since, crews have been responding to all calls in their six-seat ladder and are currently using a Department of Public Works pickup truck to transport its volunteer firefighters to and fro emergency calls, officials say.

It’s the borough’s second acquisition for the Belmar Fire Department in the past year, as the Goodwill Hose Co. station received a 2018 Seagraves pumper in March.

Officials say they met with at least five apparatus vendors and did their due diligence prior to deciding on the new rescue.

Not even thousands of miles of distance can break the firefighters’ bond.

The Coram-West Glazier (MT) Volunteer Fire Department needed a pumper with fire season approaching, so the Blue Ridge Mountain (WV) Volunteer Fire Department decided to step up, reports localdvm.com.

As Blue Ridge Mountain was about to orphan one of its older trucks, department member David Tabb heard about Coram-West Glazier predicament and chose to help. He arranged—out of his own pocket—to foster the pumper west.

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Peterborough’s newly-formed Municipal Facility Task Force will spend time developing a general fire station design, reports Monadnock Ledger-Transcript.

In 2020, the town voted to fund a fire station and selected an architect.

There’s been discussion about relocating the police station to the compound as well. With so much in the works, the Task Force will work to optimize the layout of the new construction to anticipate future needs and uses.

A good layout could even allow the different buildings to share certain resources, like HVAC systems, generators, or cold storage facilities.