Brooklyn Park plans to ask the Minnesota legislature to help finance a rebuild of the Central Fire Station for an estimated $25.7 million, hometownsource.com reported.

The Brooklyn Park City Council approved the project as part of its legislative priority list for the upcoming year on Jan. 17, the report said.

Fire Chief John Cunningham told the council that all of the city’s fire stations are outdated, and were designed for a paid-on-call staffing model rather than the full-time staffing model used by the department, the report said.

The Central Fire Station, located at 5700 85th Avenue North, is the largest firehouse in the department’s hub-and-spoke model.

The design and engineering work for the proposed new firehouse have not been completed, but Cunningham said the city would likely tear down the former Hennepin County Library building near the Community Activity Center and relocate the station north to that site, according to the report.

The new firehouse would be home to the fire department administration, the fire marshal division, a fire and EMS training area, and the city’s secure Emergency Operations Center located on-site, the report said.

The North Wilkesboro Fire Department has a new aerial fire truck, JournalPatriot.com reported.

The 2022 Pierce Manufacturing aerial mid-mount truck, which arrived Jan. 19, has several advantages over the department’s 1987 rear-mount truck, according to a fire official, the report said.

The truck’s aerial tower extends 100 feet in five telescoping sections, which the fire official said is 15 feet more than the 1987 truck. The additional height provides the new capability of pumping water on Wilkes Towers from a point above the structure. Wilkes Towers is the town’s tallest building, the report said.

The truck has a Cummins 500hp engine, 300-gallon water tank and can pump 2,000 gallons of water per minute, the report said. It has a Stokes basket mounted on the bucket at the end of the tower and a 10-foot-long ladder can also be mounted there for accessing tops of buildings and elsewhere.

The fire official said the new aerial truck cost $1.4 million and was funded with a $944,000 Federal Emergency Management Agency grant, according to the report. Remaining funds came from the town.

The 1987 aerial truck will be put up for sale, the report said.

Eutaw residents just got better fire protection with a new fire truck, the first they’ve received in years, according to town leaders, wbrc.com reported.

Eutaw Fire and Rescue Service officials say the ladder truck is a 2006 Pierce Quint, the report said.

‘Truck One’ will arrive soon and will be put in full service in a few weeks, according to the report.

The cost for the fire truck was more than $252,000, the report said. It pumps 1,500 gallons of water per minute and the ladder can reach 75 feet.

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