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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

Middletown (OH) to Spend $150K on New Medic Unit

Posted: Apr 13, 2017

Middletown (OH) to Spend $150K on New Medic Unit

Middletown will purchase a new medic unit to replace a 2011 unit that does not work well. City Manager Doug Adkins told City Council on Tuesday that Middletown Division of Fire is planning to replace a 2011 International unit that has had problems in reusing a patient care box over the chassis.

The city will spend $134,450 for a new Medix fire medic unit from Penn Care of Niles, Ohio, through the Ohio Department of Administrative Services contract.

Adkins said in addition to the medic unit, the city will need to spend an additional $2,000 on a four-camera video system as well as $18,178 for a Stryker power lift cot, bringing the total vehicle cost to $154,628.

Adkins said the city has tried to keep costs down by reusing the patient care box when the chassis wears out. In the case of the 2011 International unit, which has a larger chassis, that has not worked well. He said the smaller van-style chassis works better for the city’s application of reusing patient care boxes that can be remounted with minimal adaptations.

Walker County (GA) Adds Three Vehicles to Fleet

Walker County Emergency Services recently put three Quick Response Vehicles into operation. One QRV was added to each of the county's three full time fire stations: Rock Spring, Chickamauga and Lafayette. These vehicles will primarily work medical calls and motor vehicle accidents.

In their first 48 hours in service, firefighters used QRVs to respond to 23 out of 24 service calls. The one call where a Quick Response Vehicle was not used came while a QRV was already dispatched on a medical call.

The QRVs come at no added expense to the taxpayer, and will provide Walker County residents with significant savings.

Sullivan County (IN) Ambulance Responding to Accident Crashes

An ambulance that responded to a car crash in Sullivan County was involved in an accident.

The ambulance was on its way to the hospital with a crash victim in the back, when the accident occurred.
The ambulance was following a county-owned dump truck when the truck slowed to turn.
The ambulance driver swerved to try to avoid hitting the back of the dump truck and ended up hitting its passenger side.

St. Regis Ambulance (NY) Wins $150K-Plus Grant

St. Regis Falls Fire Ambulance Inc. has been awarded $153,362 in federal funding to update equipment and modify facilities. The money is allocated through the Department of Homeland Security Federal Emergency Management Agency's Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program, in cooperation with the Department's United States Fire Administration.

"We're actually tickled to death," said St. Regis Falls Ambulance Board member Mike Bailey about winning the grant.

"This funding is going to dry up," he added, thinking about President Donald Trump's budget proposal and the diminished support for such programs.

Bailey said some of the money, among other needs, will go to update the defibrillators. And some will pay for lifts designed to support heavier patients.