The new custom made truck is a 4-Guys pumper built on a Spartan chassis and cost about $554,000, which was part of last year’s city Capital Improvement budget, according to Fire Chief Ronald M. Brement. The new pumper will be housed at the Central Fire Station on Black River Boulevard.

The new apparatus carries 1,000 gallons of water and can pump up to 1,500 gallons of water per minute.

Fire officials said it will take about a month to train the city’s firefighters on the new rig and add all the final bells and whistles to make it service ready.

The new engine is nearly identical to the previous Engine-3 the department bought in 2015. That 2015 truck will now be bumped up to Engine-2, and the previous Engine-2 will now be bumped up to Engine-1.

The current ladder truck has a 75-foot ladder. The new ladder truck has a 107-foot ladder.

Each floor in a commercial building is typically 10 feet tall, which means the new ladder truck will allow the fire department to reach about three floors higher than it can with the current ladder truck.

"With the city building the River District up and with all the loft apartments, this is going to be a vital piece of equipment if we ever have a fire there," Jefferson said.

Danville Firefighter Tony Mills has been with the department for 14 years and is looking forward to training on the new truck.

"This is the first truck we've had with the rear steer, so that's going to be different; getting the feel of how that handles," Mills said. "It's excellent to have a fire department that sees what you need and then goes out there and tries to get you the tools to get the job done."

"There’s not a lot of difference, obvious the size and the weight rating is different, but this truck pumps the same amount of water as our larger engines. It just wont carry as much equipment as the old, would be the main drawback," he said.

Sickles said the cost of the mini-pumper is half the amount of a regular engine.

Another perk the fire department said was that it will be able to fit at their fire station one, located at city hall, as that station is a little smaller.