Tulsa (OK) company Explorer Pipeline recently donated a truck to the Freedom Hill Volunteer Fire Department, reports News9.com.

With resources at a minimum as a volunteer-based department, department officials say the apparatus will be of great help. In March, one of the department’s trucks was stuck while fighting a fire in Mannford, and, before they could get the it moved, it caught fire and was destroyed.

An Explorer Pipeline official says the company remembered how the volunteer firefighters helped battle the 2012 Creek County Wildfires, so it wanted to give back.

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The McRae-Helena (GA) Fire Department has added a new, 78-foot aerial to its fleet thanks to a pair of grants, reports wgxa.tv.

The apparatus comes with a 36-foot ladder, and firefighters are still training on it.

The grants totaled close to $1 million, while the truck itself cost more than $700,000. The additional funds allowed the department to purchase other equipment, too—e.g., a compressor system and 12 new self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA).

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Train horns on FDNY brand new Engine 257 responding.

Sutphen—Blanchard Township Fire Department, Gilboa, OH, pumper. Monarch cab and chassis; Cummins L9 450-hp engine; Hale Qmax 1,500-gpm pump; Pro Poly 1,000-gallon polypropylene water tank; 20-gallon foam cell; Hale Smart Foam 2.1 single-agent foam system; Firetech LED scene lights; enclosed pump panel. Dealer: Andy Herb, Herb Fire Equipment, Powell, OH.

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