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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

Displaced Orange County Fire Authority and Buena Park Firefighters Move to Temporary Fire Station

Posted: Aug 15, 2017

Displaced Orange County Fire Authority and Buena Park Firefighters Move to Temporary Fire Station

Not unlike students returning to school this month for the first day of class, Orange County Fire Authority and Buena Park firefighters returned to school Monday, Aug. 14.

More than seven months after a fire burned down the city’s 50-year-old Station 61, crews displaced by the fire moved into Walter Knott Elementary, a Centralia School District site turned temporary fire station.

About 40 fire personnel will work out of Walter Knott, which closed as a school in 2010, but has since reopened as an education center.

Raleigh (NC) Fire Station Must Move for Proposed High-Speed Rail

A fire station that serves northeast Raleigh must move to make way for a proposed high-speed rail line. Fire Station No. 22 could relocate from its current spot on Durant Road to 1.3 acres of city-owned property at 10050 Durant Road near Abbotts Creek Park. The site is about a mile away.

Raleigh staff on Tuesday recommended budgeting $9 million to build a new station. The City Council is expected to vote on the issue Sept. 5.

A new station would be much larger than the existing facility, which opened in 1998 and is 5,000 square feet. The new station would be 14,000 square feet and two stories.

Wellington High School (FL) Getting Fire Apparatus

Palm Beach County Fire Rescue is helping out what may be the next generation of local firefighters. The agency donated an old fire engine to Wellington High School's Fire Academy last week, which will help the students with their hands-on training. The Fire Academy was started at the school in 2013.

Mark Davis, the lead instructor for the class, also teaches at Palm Beach State College and works for Palm Beach County Fire Rescue. He said the new engine will help specifically on the hands-on state test, which the students will be able to practice more efficiently.

Surry Community College (NC) Donates Fire Apparatus to Tractor Brown's Museum and Event Center

After a year's worth of repair and refurbishment by automotive students at Surry Community College, Dobson Fire Department's 1958 fire truck left the Dobson campus one recent morning on a journey to its new home - Tractor Brown's Museum and Event Center in Yadkinville.

For several years, the truck was actively used in the training process, but as new technology and trucks were updated, the "vintage" truck was used in a comparison of the foundation of firefighting to the updated equipment.

For more than a year, the college’s automotive technology students and instructors have been working to restore the truck to running order, a task which instructor David Weavil said was monumental. “It was a good experience for the students,” he said. “The brakes didn’t work, and it didn’t crank. It’s sheer size and weight were a challenge in getting it to the shop from the training center.”