The East Kingston (NH) Fire Department is hosting an Open House and Community Appreciation Event on Saturday, July 31, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at the station located at 5 Main St. Complimentary food and drinks will be served.

“Please join us, we would love to see you and say thank you in person,” the department wrote on social media.

Residents will be able to meet firefighters and department staff, tour the station, and view demonstrations of the apparatus.

The event also serves as a thank you to the many community members who made donations that went toward the station’s bathroom and shower upgrade.

Austintown (OH) Fire Station 1 will be getting an upgrade thanks to a $50,000 check the department received from the Mahoning County Commissioner, reports wytv.com.

The money will go to fix the station’s driveway, which has cracked. Most apparatus weigh about 50,000 pounds, and, when parked for several hours at a time during trainings, do damage.

The station was built in 1978.

The Bentonville (AR) Fire Department is getting a new aircraft rescue firefighting truck thanks to the help of a local donation, reports nwahomepage.com.

A celebration was held Monday at the department’s Station 6, located across from the Bentonville Airport.

The apparatus is equipped with chemicals needed to put out jet-fuel fires, doesn’t require boots on the ground to put out fires, and its driver can maneuver a fire from the truck at a farther distance.

Steuart Walton, Co-Founder of Runway Group, donated $800,000 to help bring the high-tech equipment to the city, while the remaining $65,000 will be paid by the city, which approved funding last week.

The department will take hold of the new truck in 2022.

A North Babylon (NY) Volunteer Fire Department firefighter was hospitalized and a department engine was damaged after a car struck the back of the apparatus blocking a crash scene on Sunday morning, according to a Facebook post by the department.

According to the Facebook post, Engine 1-8-2 was struck from behind while it was parked on Southern State Parkway in the early morning hours of July 25. The engine was blocking the second of a four-car crash that happened near an earlier single-car crash that happened just east of Exit 38.

All North Babylon units were summoned to the scene to close down the parkway and divert traffic. A mutual-aid ambulance was summoned from West Babylon Fire Department to transport the chauffeur of the engine to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries for evaluation, according to the Facebook post.

The driver of the vehicle that struck the back of the engine was taken in to custody by the New York State Police and refused any medical treatment.

The apparatus crash was the fourth motor vehicle crash North Babylon firefighters responded to on Sunday morning.