A small car hit his 2010 Ford Expedition from behind, sending his eyeglasses flying into the windshield and his head back against the headrest. He looked up and a saw the car veer off, turn a corner and stop nearby.

The new compressor is almost double the power of the older, less efficient unit it will replace, which will enable Liberty Township VFD to maximize the capacity of its self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) bottles. With additional oxygen in the SCBA bottles, firefighters can withstand hostile environments longer, giving them more time to bring a fire under control or search for victims.

Though the Selectboard originally anticipated repairs to cost between $3,500 and $4,000, the cost totaled about $7,500, Neipp said.

Repairs to Engine 1 took longer than expected, with Neipp originally anticipating the truck could be back in service by the end of January.

Engine 21 — a 2016 Spartan with a 1,500-gallons-per-minute pump and a 750-gallon tank — arrived on scene and stretched a hose line to extinguish what turned out to be a mulch fire at 9300 Atlantic Ave.

The new engine got its first major call a few days later for a structure fire in the 100 block of South Iroquois Avenue on April 26.