The Town of Dewey Fire Department in Stevens Point, Wisconsin, is adding a larger pumper and updating its breathing equipment.

The Town Board approved the purchase using $27,000 from the fire department’s reserves to purchase a used engine and self-contained breathing apparatus (SCBA) from the Village of Plover.

Fire Chief Brian Lepper told the board the 1994 Welch HME custom pumper comes with a 1,500-gallon-per-minute (gpm) pump—the biggest Dewey would own—along with a six-person cab, generator, hoses, ladders, and other tools. The truck has about 27,000 miles, an aluminum body, and no visible rust. Dewey’s officers inspected it last week.

The truck will replace the department’s 1990 rescue vehicle, a refurbished ambulance, and one of its two 1970s surplus military brush trucks. Dewey will keep the remaining six-wheel-drive unit for off-road calls.

The deal also includes 10 SCBA units and 20 used 4,500-psi air cylinders. The equipment will replace Dewey’s older 2,216-psi cylinders that provide significantly less working time inside a burning building. Lepper said Dewey is one of the last departments in the county still using the older cylinders.

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Join the Kannapolis Fire Department for a traditional wash-down ceremony to officially bring new Fire Engine 41 into service.

The ceremony will take place at 2 p.m., Friday, Nov. 21, at Fire Station 4, 328 Stewart St. NW.

A fire truck wash-down ceremony is a long-standing fire service tradition held to celebrate the arrival of a new fire engine and welcome it into service. During the ceremony, firefighters and community members gather to wash and wipe down the new engine. After the wash down, the new truck is ceremonially pushed into the station’s bay, a nod to the days when firefighters manually pushed horse-drawn engines into their stalls.

The public is welcome to attend and participate in the ceremony, meet firefighters, and get an up-close look at the new Engine 41. Light refreshments will be provided following the ceremony.

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The Gunnison County (CO) Fire Protection District covers 2,700 square miles of residential, some commercial, but mostly wooded spaces from a main station in Gunnison and three satellite stations in the towns of Pitkin, Taylor Canyon, and Ohio City. The district has a paid chief, a deputy chief, a captain, and 40 volunteer firefighters.

The district runs a 2015 Rosenbauer Commander 4×4 pumper, a 2016 Rosenbauer Timberwolf pumper, a 2019 Rosenbauer T-Rex aerial platform, a 2003 SVI hazmat/air/light truck, two SVI Ford F-550 rescue trucks, two SVI tactical tenders, and three Type 6 wildland pumpers that were built in-house.

“We have a robust capital replacement program,” says Deputy Chief Tom McDonough. “We replace our tenders every 15 years and the retiring tenders replace rigs in our outlying stations. We only have hydrants in and near the city limits of Gunnison, and about 20 dry hydrants in the rest of our district, so we have to bring water to 90% of our fires.”

McDonough says that the Gunnison County Fire Protection District put together a committee to review the district’s experience with its existing and previous tenders and to develop a plan for how it could be improved upon. “We came up with a set of specs and sent them out to three vendors,” he says. “SVI Trucks came up with exactly what we wanted, which is a small 4×4 tactical tender on a single rear axle that could get into tight driveways, carry 2,000 gallons of water, and perform pump-and-roll operations. It was also critical for us to make sure the vehicles were built under their gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR), because we know how easy it is to get a tender over weight after you add equipment to it.”

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