So, when the station received a $200,000 grant the community was thrilled.

On average, the Dawn VFD responds to 20-30 calls a year.

 Fire Chief Roy Johnson said the need for new updated trucks was urgent.

The older trucks were not dependable any more and needed constant repairs.

"It's always nice to have something you don't have to work on every time you take it out," Johnson said. "They will run quite a while before we have any real problems."

One of the new 2016 model is replacing a truck from 1971. 

It has a 1,500 gallon water tank and a front monitor control station. 

Johnson said both trucks have already responded to a fire and worked well, but said the fire crew did make a change to one of the trucks.

"If you notice on the new truck we did put the bumper nozzle on the side so somebody doesn't actually have to stand there and hold a hose and we can be more effective that way with less energy expended and our firefighters won't get so tired," Johnson said. 

Early Monday morning, five vehicles were broken into and three guns were stolen at Forsyth County Fire Station 10 at 3860 Old Atlanta Road, near Lambert High School.

“Five different vehicles belonging to the fire staff at Station 10 were broken into, forced windows and broken windows,” said Dep. Doug Rainwater, a spokesman for the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office.“Of the five vehicles, three of them parked overnight had guns in them, and of course they all belong to firefighters working that shift.”

Rainwater said the break-ins happened between 1-7 a.m. on Monday.

Fire Division Chief Jason Shivers said firefighters returned from a call around 1 a.m. on Monday and nothing had been broken into at that time, but noticed the damage during a shift change at 7 a.m.

"When they came back from a call just after 1 a.m., they could see the parking lot, and they know everything was fine then, so it had to be between then and shift change,” Shivers said. “When they came out at shift change, they found broken windows, and disarray in the vehicle interiors where someone had gone through them."

Shivers said no electronics or other items were stolen from the vehicles and there was “no indication they made entry into the station or fire apparatus.”

Dayton commissioners recently authorized spending $1.07 million on two top-mount pumper fire trucks, which will replace engines built in 1993 and 1994.

The engines are 1,500-gallon-per-minute class A pumps. Their tanks can hold about 750 gallons of water.

The purchase will help rotate some of the oldest fire-suppression vehicles out of the system, Payne said.

"We'll get 15 good years out of them," Payne said. "And with the newer engines, we'll have lower maintenance costs."

The fire department has eight front-line fire engines, which are used everyday, except when they require maintenance.

When those trucks are in the shop, the department has four reserve engines, which were built in 1983 but were retrofitted between 1989 to 1994, Payne said.

When the department takes ownership of the new vehicles, the engines they replace will be scrapped because of their age, Payne said.

The front-line fleet includes two engines purchased in 2013, two purchased in 2010 and two purchased in 2002.

The fire department is expected to receive the new engines in about nine months. But it expects to receive its new emergency medic unit a couple months sooner than that.

The new, $248,750 vehicle replaces a unit purchased in 1997. That vehicle will be taken out of operation. The city's seven front-line medic units make thousands of runs every year, officials said.

The average age of the units is 8.4 years old.