Bidding has begun on many of the items being auctioned by the Killeen (TX) government in an online event, including two fire trucks, kdhnews.com reported.

United Auctioneers conducts the event each year. Items listed on Wednesday also include a boat, several pickup trucks, eight Harley-Davidson motorcycles, ambulance, SUVs, filing cabinets, computer stations, televisions, chairs, vacuum cleaner and a drill kit, the report said.

The fire trucks — 1996 Freightliners — had received high bids of $50 and $550 on Wednesday. The minimum bid accepted on the surplus office items and 14 fleet vehicles is $5, according to the report.

According to city spokesperson, several items in the auction were seized by police, including the 2009 GMC Sierra, stepladder, three vacuum cleaners, Samsung, Vizio and Sharp televisions, portable DVD player, drill kit, circular saw, drill driver and toolbox.

The auctions help the city offload surplus inventory. Items are sold as-is. The full auction list is at https://bit.ly/3GCnln6.

The online auction is scheduled to end at 3 p.m. January 9.

ATLANTA — Channel 2 Action News has exclusively learned that a large number of fire trucks in the city of Atlanta are out of service. Here’s the video report from Channel 2.

Channel 2 learned Monday that 14 of the city’s 45 fire trucks and engines, not counting the airport, were out of service. On Tuesday, 10 were out of commission, the report said.

Some of the out of service trucks need repairs and supply chain issues may be causing some of the problems, according to the report. Others are old with more than 100,000 miles, the report said.

A city official said he is working with the mayor’s office to buy new fire trucks. It could take 12 to 18 months to get new trucks.

“The flooding was major this morning (in the fire station),” Hartford Fire announced on Facebook January 3.

“Hartford Fire received a call for a vehicle in the water on Hamlin Chapel Road and when units arrived at Station 1 (Clay Street), they were instead met with flooding of their own.

“The station can be repaired. We are just thankful no lives were lost and no serious injuries to the public. Thanks for all the calls and messages from the surrounding agencies willing to give support.”

By Alan M. Petrillo

San Francisco, California, always has been unique in a number of ways, being the home of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz Island, and Fisherman’s Wharf. And now the city can claim another world first—the San Francisco (CA) Fire Department’s new floating fire station, Fire Station No. 35, which replaced a 105-year-old station on land.

The new 14,900-square-foot fire station was designed as a floating structure to be less susceptible to earthquakes and rising sea levels. The existing fire station at Pier 22½ is an historic landmark, and the adjoining pier structure was significantly undersized and outdated, not meeting the fire department’s maritime operational needs or current seismic safety standards.

M. Magdalena Ryor, principal project manager at San Francisco Public Works Project Management Bureau, says that Fire Station No. 35, as the world’s first floating fire station, “presented unique challenges to us because there were no precedents to go by. We were trailblazers, and that was the largest challenge we had to face, but we had great consultants and engineers who worked together to make the station a reality.”

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