Despite a few finishing touches still to come, the grand opening of the new, $6.7 million North Conway (NH) Fire Station is set for Saturday, May 22 at 10 a.m., reports conwaydailysun.com.

The invited guests include Gov. Chris Sununu, State Sen. Jeb Bradley (R-Wolfeboro), and retired State Fire Marshall Paul J. Parisi.

Located at 70 Norcross Cir. on the site of the former ‘60s-era brick station, the new station has five bays, a dirty holding area, clock tower, and offices on the northern end. The lower level has a small conference room and office for the chief, as well as support spaces for accessing the vehicle bays. Upstairs is a training/common room, bunk room, kitchen space, and an atrium over the rescue vehicle bay.

North Conway Water Precinct voters approved the new station at their annual precinct meeting in June 2020 by a vote of 45-3.

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Huntington City (WV) Council recently approved the purchase of a property at 3208 and 3210 Piedmont Rd. in Westmoreland to be the future site of a station, reports herald-dispatch. The negotiated price was $55,000, but the appraised value of the half-acre was $95,000.

Officials say that the design phase hasn’t yet begun but estimate that construction wouldn’t start for another year or two.

The current Westmoreland station, located on Camden Road, was built in 1926. Officials say that the new station has been in the works since 2012.

The Greenfield and District (Canada) Volunteer Fire Department recently bought a tanker for just $1, and the apparatus was pulled into action a few days later, reports thestar.com.

It all started about a year ago during a call when the motor went out in Greenfield’s 30-year-old tanker. Reluctant to spend $10,000-$40,000 for a temporary fix, a fire official noticed the Facebook page Nova Scotia Fire Equipment Swap and Trade or Sell and quickly responded.

An official Kennetcook had posted the tanker for $1 and agreed to sell it at that price with a gentleman’s agreement that Greenfield would do the same when it was time for them to sell it.

The truck had been gifted previously to Kennetcook—which used it for several years—for the same price by Maitland Fire Department.

Greenfield’s new truck—a 1997 Freightliner that holds about 1,500 gallons of water, the same amount its predecessor held—was picked up from Kennetcook on April 19, and, five days later, was called into action to battle a forest fire at Molega Lake.

It’s hoped that this latest apparatus will last the department for at least the next 12-14 months, until it receives a new one that was ordered last week, after the department secured a $600,000 loan.