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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

Kentucky Sends Firefighting Aid to Oklahoma

Posted: Mar 14, 2017

Kentucky Sends Firefighting Aid to Oklahoma

The Kentucky Division of Forestry (KDF) has dispatched a dozen firefighters to assist the state of Oklahoma, where fires have burned nearly 900,000 acres in the northwest part of Oklahoma. The firefighters, who departed from Kentucky Friday, included one public information officer, one task force leader, two dozer bosses, three engine bosses, three engine operators and two firefighter type IIs.

The Division of Forestry also sent three Type-6 Wildland Fire Engines and two JD-650 dozers with plows to assist Oklahoma’s fire efforts as part of the Southern Wildland Fire Compact.

Car Strikes Tewksbury (MA) Fire Apparatus

A firefighter suffered a minor injury when a driver lost control of a car on North Street this morning and slid into a Tewksbury fire truck, according to Tewksbury Fire Chief Michael Hazel. The firefighter driving the fire truck saw the car coming and reduced the speed of the fire engine to almost a stop, he said.

One firefighter as taken to the hospital, treated and released for an elbow injury, the chief said. Two other firefighters were uninjured.

Fire Chief Says Bloomington (IL) Needs 6th Fire Station

Fire Chief Brian Mohr said Bloomington's 2016 fire statistics reflect the city's need for a new station on the northeast side and a second ambulance crew at its headquarters station near downtown.

"Our biggest problem in the northeast is travel distance so we need to build a station and put a resource in that location in order to reduce (response) times," said Mohr after presenting the department's statistical annual report to the City Council Monday.

Currently, it can take up to 12 minutes for a fire engine to show up in that quadrant because of the distance from the nearest current stations, he said.

He also noted the over-utilization of the headquarters station on Lee Street just west of downtown as a factor for the department last year meeting the response time national benchmark of six minutes 66.5 percent of the time for EMS calls.

Pingree Grove (IL) Fire Stations Would Cost $8.5 Million

The Pingree Grove and Countryside Fire Protection District will have a referendum on the ballot April 4 asking voters permission to borrow $8.5 million to build two new fire stations. The goal is to be better positioned geographically to reduce response times for an increasing population, Fire Chief Mitch Crocetti said.

The district has three fire stations, one of which -- Station 4 on Plank Road -- would be closed and sold if the two new ones are built.

The district would repay the bonds with $2 million out of its general fund and $6.5 million with a 20-year property tax increase that would amount to about $117 per year for a house valued at $300,000, Fire Chief Mitch Crocetti said.