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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

Monroe City Firefighters Now Have a Fire Boat at Their Disposal

Posted: Sep 2, 2016

Monroe City Firefighters Now Have a Fire Boat at Their Disposal

MONROE CITY, Mo. -- The Monroe City Fire Protection District has a new firefighting weapon in its arsenal. The district earlier this summer put its first fireboat into service. The vessel is based at the Indian Creek Marina at Mark Twain Lake, and will be available for any type of fire or emergency occurring at the lake.

The boat also will be available for mutual aid calls when other fire departments in Northeast Missouri need help battling a blaze on or around water. The boat quickly can be loaded onto a trailer and hauled elsewhere -- even to incidents on the Mississippi River.

"We can pretty much take it wherever we need to," said Monroe City Fire Chief Rich Enochs.

The 23-foot-long Sea Arc boat was previously used by the Missouri Department of Conservation for law enforcement patrols in the Lebanon area. The DOC no longer needed the boat and offered it to Missouri fire departments. Monroe City made a pitch and was awarded the boat at no cost.

"One of the reasons I saw that we really needed a boat was that we've had a few fires on the lake," Enochs explained. "We had no way to get out there and do anything with them."

The boat will not only give firefighters easier access to a boat on the water that experiences a fire or other emergency, but it also will be of help should a fire ever occur at one of the marinas or other lakeside facilities.

"With this boat, we can fight a fire from both ends," Enochs said. "We can fight it from the water and also from the land."

The Monroe City Fire Protection District took possession of the boat last year and gradually converted it for firefighting purposes.

According to Enochs, fire officials bought and installed a portable pump that can be used to shoot water under high pressure through a 11/2-inch hose stored on the boat.

In addition, the boat is equipped with a generator that will provide electricity to power lights and other equipment needed during nighttime calls.

Back Mountain Regional Fire & EMS Receives $218,000 Grant

DALLAS - Back Mountain Regional Fire & EMS received a funding boost from a Department of Homeland Security grant to increase emergency personnel staffing. A grant of $218,000 from Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) program was awarded to the Back Mountain Regional Fire & EMS Wednesday, according to a news release from U.S.

The SAFER program is designed to assist fire departmentsfinancially to train existing and recruit new front-line emergency services personnel.

In November 2015, Barletta toured one of the three Back Mountain Regional Fire & EMS stations with Fire Chief Harry Vivian.

During the tour, Barletta learned the statewide trend of diminishing volunteer firefighters extends into Luzerne County.

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Kennett Fire Company Houses New Truck

Posted: Sep 2, 2016

Kennett Fire Company Houses New Truck

KENNETT SQUARE >> Members of the Kennett Fire Company and their supporters pulled out all the stops on Saturday to celebrate the housing of their new truck. The huge vehicle cost more than $1 million and has a 95-foot tower that can reach any structure in the borough.

The housing involved three vehicles: the ambulance, another Truck 24 and the new truck.

Each time, different teams of participants stood behind the vehicles and symbolically pushed them into the bay (although they were being helped by drivers and engines in reverse).

The Kennett Fire Company serves Kennett Township as well as Kennett Square. But it was noted that the very tall tower truck could be call upon for help all over the region.

Visiting firefighters came from as far away was Delaware and Lancaster counties as well as areas of Maryland. The West Grove Fire Company provided stand-by overnight so the Kennett members could hold an extended celebration.

Upper Pine Has New Truck to Fight Wildfires

Enlargephoto Photo by Melanie Brubaker Mazur Visitors to last week's Bayfield Block Party are the first to check out the newest wildland fire truck in the area. Upper Pine River Fire Protection District recently took delivery of a new Dodge 5500 wildland fire truck from Texas.

Staff members are currently receiving training on the new vehicle.

"Everybody loves this truck," said Corey Adamy, an Upper Pine firefighter who was showing the vehicle during the block party on Aug. 25. "This thing can go where no other truck can go."

The four-wheel-drive with dual wheels holds four crewmembers plus equipment. It's designed to be the first truck to reach a wildfire, or even a home up a winding driveway where a bigger truck can't get to.

Adamy explained that a complaint for many firefighters is that there's no room for their personal gear along with everything else they have to haul on a fire truck.