“We’re all kids at heart when it comes to these things, these are impressive as a child, growing up you always wanted to be fireman, wanna get on the trucks and respond and when one comes in new like this everyone jumps to it and flocks to it,” said Lieutenant Chris Watson.  

The new engine will be housed at Station One on Washington.

The Town of Pulaski hasn’t had one of these trucks since 2011, but their hard work to get one may pay off this fall.

“Radford City and Dublin both responded with their ladder trucks on the church fire two years ago, spent 12 hours flowing water, I’m not saying it would have helped the outcome or not, but it definitely wouldn’t have hurt,” said Town of Pulaski Fire Chief Robbie Kiser. “Especially for a large-scale fire like the church fire, it kind of hinders what we can do right away until we get a ladder truck there.”  

Kiser said they had a ladder truck at the department since 1941. Until 2011 they went through two of them. They had to surplus the final truck. In the past eight years, they’ve been unsuccessful trying to get a new ladder truck through grants and fundraising. At a town council meeting on July 16, it was mentioned that a brand new truck could cost $1.3 million.