The Fate (TX) Department of Public Safety is auctioning off a 2007 Freightliner M2106 pumper.

The rig has 19,342 miles, a 1,000-gallon water tank, a 1,250-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump and a ground ladder.

Bidding is open through municibid.com at https://tinyurl.com/muy6zb5a and runs through May 27. There was an opening – and lone – bid of $15,000.

All the money raised will go back into the Fate Department of Public Safety.

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UF Health Jacksonville and the Jacksonville Fire and Rescue Department (JFRD) rolled out a new ambulance dedicated solely to stroke response in Northeast Florida.

Designed to deliver life-saving treatment faster, the specialized stroke ambulance is equipped with a mobile CT scanner and clot-busting medications, allowing paramedics and medical staff to begin diagnosis and treatment before the patient even arrives at the hospital, First Coast News reports.

The new mobile stroke unit is modeled after a similar program launched in Gainesville, where it has already proven successful. There, patients receive critical treatment within the first hour of a stroke, the “golden hour,” which dramatically improves outcomes.

Visit First Coast News for more.

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CAMERON MARTINEZ
Skagit Valley Herald, Mount Vernon, Wash.
(TNS)

CONCRETE — Concrete Fire Chief Jaesen Meacham told his Town Council on Monday that his department’s Engine 2811 — a 1991 Darley Pumper — is beyond repair.

Because of the truck’s age, the fire department is unable to obtain parts for the truck.

Now the department only has Engine 2812, a 1989 Darley, but its engine hasn’t been tested and fire season is on the horizon.

Meacham’s temporary solution is to come up with an interlocal agreement with Skagit County Fire District 10 to borrow an engine.

District 10 covers areas along Highway 20, beginning east of Hamilton and extending to the Canadian border.

It also includes the region surrounding Highway 530, from its intersection with Highway 20 at Rockport south to the Suiattle River.

“I’m going to get District 10’s backup engine into our station and I’m going to get my people trained up on that as quick as I can so we have an engine,” Meacham said.

In the meantime, he wants to look at purchasing two new fire trucks — a 2025 US Fire Apparatus Freightliner Commercial Pumper and a 2025 Deep South International Commercial Pumper.

According to the council meeting packet, the trucks cost $483,000 and $329,000, respectively.

Meacham said ideally the department would get a new engine in six months. However, he said it was more likely that it would take more than a year.

“If we find a cheaper engine that somebody’s selling that’s been produced, we’re buying someone else’s problems,” Meacham said. “I’ve already dumped a bunch of money trying to save our engine, and I’m at a point now where it’s unsavable.”

Mayor Marla Reed said the town will look into grants to obtain a new truck, but in the meantime she agreed that an interlocal agreement with Fire District 10 was the best option.

“An interlocal would be basically an agreement to provide services, and so we would share equipment,” Reed said. “There would be a cost, but it wouldn’t be more than what we’re already budgeting for the fire department.”

Reed agreed to draft an interlocal agreement to send to District 10.

Concrete’s next Town Council meeting will be at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 27. For more information, visit townofconcrete.com.

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Portable water tanks are the substitute for hydrant systems in rural and some suburban areas without pressurized water hydrants. Responding to fire department needs and requests, portable water tank manufacturers have developed a variety of products crafted with features that departments have come to rely on for water transfer and supply.

Jay Claeys, president of Husky Portable Containment, says Husky makes a number of portable water tank models, with its core product being square folding frame tanks. “We make them in sizes from 500 gallons to 5,0 gallons, but the most popular sizes are in the 2,100- to 3,000-gallon range,” Claeys notes. “We make the tanks with either steel or aluminum frames, with aluminum frames having radiused corn ers to prevent abrasion of the ropes and making up about 80% of sales.”

Claeys says that Husky offers three types of tank liners, with the standard version having 22-ounce vinyl sidewalls and a 28-ounce vinyl floor; a heavier model that has 30-ounce sidewalls and floor; and an Ultimate liner made of Exlon™, a 22-ounce-per-square-yard material. “Our patent pending manufacturing process allows us to use one continuous piece of material for the side panel, which is then welded to our Husky_®-Duty floor material,” he points out. “We also install solid brass grommets in a tight pattern that alleviates any liner drooping at the frame.”

1 A Husky Portable Containment square folding frame water tank is being used by the Horicon (NY) Volunteer Fire Department. (Photos 1-2 courtesy of Husky Portable Containment.)

2 The quick dump gate on the side of this Husky tank allows the tank to be drained in 30 seconds.

3 A tanker dumps into one of two FOL-DA-TANK single-lane tanks. (Photos 3-4 courtesy of FOL-DA-TANK.)

4 The FOL-DA-TANK in the foreground is outfitted with a low-level strainer.

Husky’s folding water tanks include patented Easy Lift Handles, Claeys says, which are grab handles welded to the floor of the tank in a zigzag fashion and also a Quick-Release dump gate on the side of the tank, where releasing two D rings and a flip latch allows the tank to drain in under 30 seconds.

Claeys says Husky also makes a Skinny Tank™ between 8 and 9 feet wide and 14 to 17 feet long that is often used on a two-lane road with a ditch on either side so it can be set up in one lane for drafting and leave the second lane open for traffic as well as Leading Edge Tanks®, 1,500- to 3,500-gallon units that range from 10 feet 3 inches square to 14 feet 3 inches square with additional hinges that allow each tank to fold to 8 feet wide and its respective length. All Husky portable water tanks can be fitted with a drafting flange kit flange that bolts to the frame with a male connection inside the tank for a low-level strainer and a female fitting outside the tank for a hard suction.

Husky also makes Helicopter Tanks in 72- and 134-gallon models that are 40-ounce reinforced PVC, Aluminum Quick Assemble AQUA tanks from 100 to 3,000 gallons that snap together quickly and fit in a bag for compact storage and SelfSupporting water tanks, commonly call