The station will honor Michael C. Hope, Sgt. Steve Townsend and Capt. Ron Weaver.

Hope was a Del City native and a captain in the U.S. Army during the Vietnam War. He was killed in action.

Townsend was a Del City firefighter who had a line of duty death in 1999.Weaver was a Del City native and Del City firefighter who died of cancer in 2007, which was considered a line of duty death.

The engine slated to be removed from the fleet was Kentwood Engine 54, a 2002 Spartan-Toyne fire engine, and City Commission on Tuesday, Oct. 2, approved the sale of that truck to Gaines Township for the agreed-upon price of $17,000.  

The sale of the engine was not publicly advertised, as is normally required, city documents show, but City Commission was allowed to approve it via special circumstances which dictate that a two-thirds vote from commissioners is sufficient to waive the purchasing rules when a sale is deemed to serve the interests of the city and the public good.

Fire Chief Brent Looman said the department had come up with a ballpark estimate of between $15,000 and $20,000 for the truck's value when it was decided it would be sold. Upon learning the city was looking to sell the truck, Looman said Gaines officials approached the city to inquire about the vehicle.