The Barnett Street Fire Station in Montego Bay, Jamaica, is about 90% complete, reports jis.gov.jm.

Officials said that some finishing touches are being added and, despite delays related to the COVID-19 pandemic, the aim is for an end-of-June/early July completion.

The construction costs $550 million, and officials noted that, so far, the project is within budget.

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On the heels of an agreement from City Council to buy the nearby lot at 708 Pine St., the Lumberton (NC) Fire Department now has room to expand its Central Station, reports news.Yahoo.com.

First Baptist Church sold the lot—a little more than a half-acre in size, located diagonally across Cedar Street from Central Station—for $100,000.

Officials said the site requires less demolition than the other potential sites would have required, and that fire department vehicles will be able to enter the site using multiple entrances.

Despite not being an official San Francisco (CA) Fire Department vehicle, Kiri—a retired, 131-inch, 1990 Daihatsu fire truck from a tiny Japanese mountain town near Nagano—is a fully functional apparatus housed in Bernal Heights.

Kiri served a volunteer fire department in Kirigamine, Japan, for almost 30 years, reports SFist.com, and arrived in the states five months into the pandemic. Designed to navigate narrow streets and steep hills, Kiri tops out at about 60 mph and eschews a water tank and relies on suction to fight fires.

San Francisco resident Todd Lappin purchased Kiri from a local importer “for almost nothing.”

Check out Kiri in action below:

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