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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

Elmwood Park (NJ) Firefighters Get Grant for SCBA

Posted: Aug 26, 2016

Elmwood Park (NJ) Firefighters Get Grant for SCBA

ELMWOOD PARK, N.J. -- Elmwood Park firefighters are getting a federal grant of nearly $355,500 to buy self-contained breathing apparatus.

"This grant will help ensure the brave men and women in the Elmwood Park Fire Department will have every advantage to keep themselves and families in their community safe," U.S. Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-NJ) said Thursday in announcing the Department of Homeland Security Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program award.

A fire department in New Jersey has gotten federal funding for new self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA), according to a report.

"As the founding father of the post-9/11 FIRE Act, Congressman Pascrell has shown to be a person who understands what first-responders across the country face," Elmwood Park Fire Chief Michael Pressler said. "The Congressman has been a true friend, not only to first responders in New Jersey, but across the entire country."

Fire Apparatus Used in Little Rock (AR) Public Safety Education

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Fire trucks in the parking lot became mobile classrooms for some lucky schoolchildren on the city's west side this morning. The kindergarten class at Don Roberts Elementary School learned important safety lessons thanks to two fire trucks, one of them the regular red and the other a bright blue.

A fire truck from the Little Rock (AR) Fire Department and the promotional Nest Fire Truck helped impart safety education messages to some area schoolchildren, according to a report.

The event was part of a safety partnership with the Little Rock School District, Little Rock Fire Department, Middleton Heat & Air, and Google’s Nest Protect.

Evidence Still Being Compiled in Stolen Fire Truck Case

Forensic evidence against two men accused of taking a fire engine on a destructive rampage through Larne in March is still being compiled, a court has been told. At Ballymena Magistrate's Court on Thursday, it was said that the case was awaiting analysis of glass and fibres.

A news report looked at the case of two men who were accused of taking a fire truck on a destructive joyrdie through the town of Larne in Northern Ireland earlier this year.

The photo above shows the damaged apparatus after it was stolen from Larne Fire Station on March 5.

Anderson (SC) to Get New Ladder Truck

The Anderson Fire Department soon will have a new ladder truck that can reach the city's tallest buildings. The City Council agreed to buy a rig with a 105-foot ladder at its meeting earlier this week.

The Anderson (SC) Fire Department is slated to get a new ladder truck, according to a report from the Independent Mail.

Randy Bratcher, the interim fire chief, said his department currently has an engine with a 70-foot ladder, which cannot reach certain occupancies in the city. Bratcher said the ladder truck will help in his department's ongoing effort to improve the city's fire rating.

Besides the ladder truck, the city also will be buying a new fire engine, 10 air cylinders, 20 sets of protective gear for firefighters and other equipment from Spartan Fire and Emergency Apparatus Inc.