The Siloam Springs Fire Department celebrated the opening of its new training tower today with a ribbon cutting and demonstrations.

The tower opened after about a year of construction and cost of about $800,000, money City Administrator Phillip Patterson said was available because of the city's residents.

Fire Chief Jeremy Criner said in 2017, the department spent $112,256 in associated construction costs and $650,000 in 2018. An extra $50,000 had to be allocated for additional soil work, Criner said.

An Horry County Fire Rescue truck and trailer was submerged at a Conway area boat landing Wednesday night and the department is “looking into the cause of this situation.”

During normal training operations, the truck and trailer used by the marine and dive team became submerged at the Reaves Ferry Boat Landing, at 5883 Old Ferry Road, the department tweeted. No injuries were reported.

It is yet to be determined if the truck, which carries dive team equipment, is a total loss, said Tony Casey, HCFR spokesperson.

A Depression-era fire truck got a piggy-back ride on a flatbed trailer and rolled through downtown Hopkinsville with cellphone cameras clicking as a small caravan brought the American LaFrance firetruck back to its first home on East Ninth Street.

The 1928 pumper truck rolled easily from the trailer to the street, and with traffic blocked for a few minutes Thursday afternoon, more than a dozen city firefighters surrounded the truck and pushed slowly toward open doors.

Firefighters helped Christian County Historian William T. Turner climb into the driver’s seat, and Alissa Keller, executive director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, climbed up next to him. Then Turner came down to help screw the truck’s metal nameplate to the front of the vehicle.

Beaver Lane Fire & Rescue, Marshville, NC, heavy rescue. Spartan Gladiator cab and chassis; Cummins ISX12 500-hp engine; Command Light CL Series Octolight 8-head light tower; 26-foot walk-around rescue body.