Ameren, Mo., recently donated a $1 million, state-of-the-art truck to the St. Louis (MO) Fire Department, reports kmov.com. The new apparatus took about 10 months to design and then another year to build.

The apparatus is used to battle underground fires; it sprays CO2 under manhole covers, quickly extinguishing electrical fires. It can also hook up to another truck to spray foam on chemical fires.

“Although ceremony was this morning, the truck has already been used in two underground fires downtown and at the Affton chemical plant fire back in April,” local resident Mark Griffin wrote on Twitter.

It can also hook up to another truck to spray foam on chemical fires. Although ceremony was this morning, the truck has already been used in two underground fires downtown and at the Affton chemical plant fire back in April. pic.twitter.com/aT6JJdkqCe

— Mark Griffin (@mgriffin_kmov) June 2, 2021

Pomfret-Teago (VT) Fire Department officials recently were granted approximately $143,000 from the department’s apparatus capital fund to buy a new Ford F550 mini-pumper, reports TheVermontStandard.com.

The new apparatus will replace its 34-year-old predecessor.

The department raised $132,000 by itself, and, with all the equipment, the mini-pumper will cost about $275,000.

The Amarillo (TX) Fire Department recently launched its third paramedic engine.

Housed at Station 7 by Grand Street and Amarillo Boulevard, the engine provides paramedic-level advanced life support care to patients.

“This cooperative initiative between AFD and AMS (Amarillo Medical Services) provides advanced equipment and medications for all three of AFD’s Paramedic Engines,” the department wrote on Facebook. “The additional equipment and medications provide the tools for our paramedic members to quickly provide advanced life-saving interventions and streamline the transfer of care to AMS.”

In about a couple of weeks, for the first time in the city’s history, all Redding (CA) Fire Department engines will be fully staffed with three firefighters, reports krcrtv.com.

In preparation, the department’s four recruits recently took part in a live-training response to a residential structure fire at the Shasta College Regional Public Safety Training Center.

The recruits still must finish some classroom training but are expected to be working on engines as part of three-person crews in about a week and a half.

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