The Lewis Tompkins Hose Company of the Beacon City (NY) Fire Department is the recipient of $125,000 in state funding in the 2021-22 budget, reports midhudsonnews.com.

The department showed off its new pumper, which had a total price tag of $640,000 and will allow them to retire two 20 plus-year-old trucks.

Beacon used to have three working fire companies—that has now been reduced to two with an imminent transition to Lewis Tompkins Hose to be the city’s central department.

Officials say the acquisition of this pumper truck will allow the city to reduce the cost of the transition. It’s expected to serve the city for at least the next 25 years.

The Tri-County (IL) Fire Department, Plymouth, recently acquired a new 2021 F550 Crew Cab Brush/Rescue truck, reports mcdonoughvoice.com. The new truck was acquired from the Alexis Fire Equipment Company at a cost of $160,000.

The truck, for which the department has been saving for years, seats five firefighters as opposed to its predecessor’s three. The previous unit, an F350, has been sold to the Gladstone Fire Department.

The new truck transports the same amount of water as the previous unit. But it also has room for extrication gear.

Tonight the Logan City Council will discuss committing $325,000 to the cost of designing a replacement for the Logan City (UT) Fire Department’s Station 70 in the downtown area, reports cachevalleydaily.com.

Some residents are against sitting the new station on the corner of 100 East St. and Federal Ave., where it would occupy a portion of an existing parking lot. Some local businesses are upset because the proposed fire station will likely restrict the availability of parking for their customers.

An online petition—which has already netted more than 500 signatures and via social media has pushed for a total of 1,000 supporters—argues that the proposed location of the new station will be detrimental to the safety of pedestrians and cyclists on 100 East St. and to the ambiance of a historic district of the city.

The petition also cites increased traffic congestion, noise disturbances, and reduced parking for events in the downtown area as other concerns.

Station 70 is currently located at 76 East 200 North—a short distance from the disputed Federal Avenue parking lot. The station was built in 1974 and is the oldest facility currently operated by the Logan Fire Department.

A $332,000 project for work on the Virgin Islands Fire and Rescue Service headquarters in Road Town (British Virgin Islands), which was heavily damaged during Hurricane Irma, is on target to be completed by July, reports bvibeacon.com.

On March 2, Metro Construction Ltd was awarded a $322,206.73 contract to renovate the facility’s ground floor, and the company started work on March 22. Work on the second floor, which houses administrative personnel, was completed in 2019.

The project includes demolishing and replacing existing floor and wall tiles, windows, doors, and electrical and plumbing fixtures.

Work also has begun to fire stations at Virgin Gorda, Jost Van Dyke, and Anegada.