The Wednesday night vote will allow the Prudential Committee to enter a lease-to-buy agreement and included a down payment of $160,000 for the first year payment. The total cost will be $950,000, including interest, according to Turners Falls Fire Chief John Zellmann.  

The new truck is a 2017 model, which has a 107-foot ladder that allows for the ladder to extend 10 degrees lower than the truck. It has a six-person, enclosed cab with air bags. It has a 2,000-gallon-per-minute pump, and can contain 500 gallons of water.

The purchase will only affect the taxes of those who own property in the Turners Falls Fire District. The truck will cause at most a 14 cent increase per $1,000 of valuation, Zellmann said.

"I was quite surprised when I saw something fall off the fire truck on the left hand side," said Renee McKinney while showing the I-TEAM video recorded on her dashcam.  

The Southside resident says in her opinion, the video evidence is undeniable, and she wonders why the city, at first, refused to pay for the damage. McKinney says she was driving eastbound on JTB towards the St. Johns Town Center behind a JFRD fire truck in the slow lane when a metal object flew off the truck in front of her and slammed into her bumper.