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The Finest Supporting the Bravest!

The purpose of the Fire Mechanics Section is to promote standardization of fire apparatus and equipment preventative maintenance, improve safety standards and practices, promote workshops, conferences, and seminars related to the purposes of this Section, and to promote cost savings through standardization of building and equipment purchasing and maintenance.

RECENT FIRE MECHANIC NEWS

Posted: Jun 11, 2018

Fire Department Takes Its Truck Back From Grand Ledge Company

Lansing State Journal

A fire department in Montcalm County that waited 18 months for Etankers to convert a semi truck chassis into a water tanker took its truck back late last week

Officials with the Stanton Community Fire Department, which serves three townships and the city of Stanton, drove to Grand Ledge firm Etankers and took their unfinished truck chassis back.

It was retrieved on the same day Etankers' owner Joe Thomas had indicated to its fire board that the vehicle would be completed.

Sidney Township Supervisor Terry Peterman, who also serves on Stanton's fire board, said he was one of the officials who retrieved the truck. He said three employees were at Etankers' property off West Grand River Highway in Grand Ledge when they arrived.

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Posted: Jun 11, 2018

Fire Engine Donated For Training Purposes

Neagle

LORDS VALLEY - To enhance their training, volunteer firefighters at the Pike County Training Center will now have a new engine with which to train. The Delaware Township Fire Company of Dingmans Ferry donated a 1993 engine, that Jordan Wisniewski, the training and operations manager said is a pumper that supplies water to other apparatuses.

The engine can carry 1,000 gallons of water. The Delaware Township Fire Company had two engines. The one they gave to the center had been for sale for awhile, but there were no “serious bids,” said Wisniewski. Consequently, the department was “more than kind to us,” Wisniewski stated.

The pumper has been refurbished. Fire engines can be quite old, as one at the center was from 1983 and was later refurbished in 1991. There are other fire apparatuses 40 years old, that he said some stations actually have in service or use for parades.

The engine that was given to the center, while it is refurbished, Wisniewski said doesn’t have all of the modern day technologies. He said that is okay because a lot of the safety features cause problems and having an older truck for training is just fine.

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Posted: Jun 11, 2018

Minocqua'S New Fire Department Is Built For Growth

WSAW

The Minocqua Fire Department moved into a new $3 million home this year and it was meant for a growing department. It has a gym, more training space and more garage space, something that was needed in the old building. This will allow the department to store more equipment on-site and accommodate new trucks if they need them.

It has a gym, more training space and more garage space, something that was needed in the old building.

This will allow the department to store more equipment on-site and accommodate new trucks if they need them.

"It's three to four times the size of the one we moved out of. It seems like a lot of extra room now, but we'll be filling it up shortly with different seasonal things, boats, ATV's and winter type off-road vehicles for snowmobile accidents," Minocqua Fire Chief Andy Petrowski said.

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Posted: Jun 11, 2018

Portage Fire Department Shows Off Training Grounds

Wiscnews

It can be hard finding a place to do your work when it involves breaking in doors and starting fires, but the Portage Fire Department now has some space and new tools to train firefighters. The department held an open house Saturday at the Portage Fire Department Training Facility off Highway 33 at Wauona Trail.

In the new smokehouse they will have the luxury of filing it up with smoke and swinging axes wherever they please. Also, as they get practiced with the building, Simonson explained, there are plans for installing temporary walls that will allow firefighters to go into the house not knowing its layout.

The basement door leads to a dark cramped space in another part of the disused tank, which is also accessible through an outside door, like a manhole cover, meant for training in confined space operations.

Before the development of the training facility, Portage and surrounding firefighters would need to go to Madison to have access to training grounds and equipment, with the new facility eliminating much of that recurring expense in time and travel costs.

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