Following an accident on March 18, there’s an urgent need to replace the 1994 Spartan Aerial ladder truck in Sheldon (IA) Fire Co.’s fleet, reports NWestIowa.com.

Originally set for the 2024-25 fiscal year, the upgrade needs expediting after a maple tree’s branch on March 18 heavily damaged the truck’s ladder extension, which was rehabbed in 1994. Aside from the truck’s aerial, which has since been taken out of service, there were no injuries.

The damaged truck is still valued at $164,000. New ladder trucks cost between $1 million and $1.5 million, while used trucks run half of that depending on wear and tear.

Lake Brownwood Bridge (TX) Fire Chief Randy Feight is in stable condition and improving after his fire truck was involved in an accident last Thursday, reports BrownwoodTX.com.

Feight was injured when his truck slid off Highway 279 at Country Road 102 in a rainstorm and struck a tree, the report said. Firefighters were responding to an oilfield tank battery fire on County Road 103.

Feight was “alert and awake” when first responders arrived at the accident site, officials said. He was initially taken to Hendrick Medical Center — Brownwood before being transferred to Abilene.

Following an early-morning crash, two Neffs firefighters have been treated and released from a hospital, reports WTRF.com.

Fire officials said the firefighters were responding to a crash on Tar Run Road around 1 a.m. Monday when the fire truck rolled over in the Clarksburg-Stewartsville area of Richland Township (OH).

Highland Township’s (MI) new Fire Station One is nearly complete and the goal is to have it operating by the end of May or early June, reports SpinalColumnonline.com.

Serving as fire headquarters for the township, the new station will be 15,800 square feet and will replace its 52-year-old predecessor on Livingston Road.

Construction of Station Two aims to begin this summer. Station Two, located at 2550 East Wardlow Rd., will be 9,500 square feet. The total cost for construction of the two new fire stations is $8.5 million, with $5.3 million for Station One, and $3.2 million for Station Two.

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