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The Wadsworth Fire Department has replaced its 1992 ladder truck with one that features newer technologies and improvements, medina-gazette.com reported.

Funded by the passed 2021 fire levy in Wadsworth, the truck was purchased from a Sutphen dealer out of Columbus in the Dublin area and cost the department $1,495,000, the report said. It was used to tour various parts of Ohio as a demo truck for sale before making its way to its new Wadsworth home.

A fire official said that it typically takes two to three years to get a new ladder truck, whereas the new one was purchased straight away, and still given time for its proper inspections to take place and arriving in just under a year.

The new truck is faster and can hold a larger water capacity, and has a mid-mount based ladder as opposed to the previous one’s rear-mounted ladder, according to the report.

Both the Lake George town and village boards approved purchasing a new fire truck at their respective meetings held Feb. 13, suncommunitynews.com reported.

Each board voted unanimously to spend $1.67 million on a new Rosenbauer Commander Cobra fire truck with a 104-foot aerial firefighting platform, the report said.

The resolutions to purchase the truck are subject to a permissive referendum which may be forced if a petition objecting to the purchase, signed by 10 percent of either of the municipalities’ residents in the last gubernatorial election, is submitted to a municipal clerk within 30 days of the resolution’s adoption, according to the report.

The fire truck is to be delivered in 2025.

The Smithfield Fire Department will be getting a new fire truck to replace a 23-year-old rescue truck, jocoreport.com reported.

The Town Council signed off on a request from Fire Chief Mike Brown to replace an American LaFrance fire rescue truck that has reached its life expectancy, the report said. Chief Brown said parts are no long available for the truck after the manufacturing company went out of business in 2014.

After receiving three bids a new fire rescue truck, the council awarded the bid to Fire Connections for $1,010,580, the report said.

The town had budgeted $875,000 for the new truck but due to price increases and supply chain issues the price was $135,580 higher, the report said.