An industrial company made an effort to help small volunteer fire departments in Oklahoma even after some of its own equipment was damaged in a fire, koco.com reported.

Before Christmas, Dolese committed to helping smaller departments across the state. Last week, the company donated trucks to two volunteer fire departments, the report said.

The Granite Volunteer Fire Department and the Reagan Volunteer Fire Department each got a Peterbilt truck, the report said. The departments will convert the trucks into tankers to help supply water to firefighters on the job, according to the report.

Both departments will be able to use their trucks by the summer of 2023.

Dolese was originally established to furnish quarried rock for railroad construction, according to the company’s website. Dolese has since developed into a full-service construction supply and material operation, employing more than 1,000 people in Oklahoma.

The Fairfield governing body passed a bond ordinance that will provide an appropriation of $1.2 million for the acquisition of a fire truck for the township and authorizes the issuance of $302,000 bonds or notes of the township for financing part of the appropriation, tapinto.net reported.  

A Fairfield city official said that the $1.2 million includes the sum of $391,146.39 from the 2021 American Rescue Plan, $391,146.39 from the 2022 American Rescue Plan and $100,000 from the Essex County Improvement Authority, according to the report. In this way Fairfield has been relieved of much of the cost, the city official said. 

California’s state investment bank approved financing for construction of a fire station in Tiburon, Marin County, NorthBayBusinessJournal.com reported.

The California Infrastructure and Economic Development Bank approved the $4.3 million Infrastructure State Revolving Fund loan for a new 5,455-square-foot, two-story building at the location of Tiburon Fire Protection District’s existing Station 10 building, the report said. Constructed in 1960, Station 10 is set to be demolished.

IBank stated that the fire district plans to start the construction bidding process soon, with the goal of breaking ground on the project in spring 2023, according to the report. The new station will have two new firefighter positions, retain 29 existing jobs and create eight to 10 construction jobs. It is expected to take about three years to complete.

The fire district’s serves 5.5 square miles, including just over 11,000 residents in Tiburon, Belvedere, other residential and wildland areas on the Tiburon Peninsula and parts of the San Francisco Bay, and Angel Island State Park.