Palm Coast has taken delivery of an E-One ladder fire truck, reports FlaglerLive.com.

Ladder-25 is a $980,000 truck, plus $40,000 for additional hardware. The 42-foot-long truck gets about 3.2 miles per gallon, carries 500 gallons of water–enough to put out a one-room fire or a car fire at 125 gallons a minute without hooking into a hydrant–and has a ladder that extends 100 feet, with a water cannon that can fire up to 1,250 gallons a minute.

The fire truck is also built with consideration for firefighter health. Oxygen tanks are stored in their own compartment and loud horns have been lowered to the bumper level.

All the lights aboard are now LED, hugely reducing energy demands on the truck’s alternator or the need for what would have been a 10,000-watt generator aboard. Smaller, portable generators are enough. 

Firefighters will be trained in early March, including training on aerial operations by E-One. 

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Firefighters in Prattville been answering calls out of the newest station since the beginning of February, reports Montgomery Advertiser.

The station has a pump truck along with a reserve engine, ambulance and brush fire truck. There’s also a kitchen and gym and recliners in the day room surrounding a big screen TV hanging off the wall. The station resides in an area that has seen a lot of residential growth. Fire apparatus are parked in a central three door bay. On the other side is a police department annex and a decontamination room. 

Planning  for the new station go back officially to 2008, but the need has gone back longer than that. Station 3 went online in 1998. 

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The Southport Board of Aldermen has agreed to accept the donation of a 75-foot ladder tower truck, reports The State Port Pilot.

The donation of the 2015 Pierce Velocity Aerial Scope truck was made by an individual who wishes to remain anonymous. The truck will replace the department’s current 50-foot ladder truck.

The new truck will be able to fit into places where the department’s existing 101-foot ladder truck cannot be used, due to blocked access from trees.

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The finishing touches are being put on a new fire station for Mount Pleasant, reports WCSC 5.

The new $6MM fire station will be the most up-to-date facility of the seven fire stations in Mount Pleasant. The fire station will have fire equipment that includes search and rescue, fire hose deployment, ground ladder training, and confined space and technical rescue training.

The fire station has a new three-apparatus bay for two fire trucks and one Battalion Chief vehicle, 11 sleeping rooms, a brand-new fitness center, and additional office space for Battalion Chiefs and other staff.

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