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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

New Salado Fire Rescue Truck Coming in May

Posted: Apr 28, 2016

New Salado Fire Rescue Truck Coming in May

SALADO - If everything goes as planned, the Salado Volunteer Fire Department will pick up its replacement rescue truck in the second week of May, Fire Chief Shane Berrier.

The new truck will cost the department $95,000, which at first seemed to be an insurmountable amount of money. However, a local bank financed it for the Salado department at a very low interest rate, Berrier said.

In the interim since the end of March when the department’s heavy duty workhorse rescue truck caught fire and burned on the way to an accident, the department is using a Â¾-ton pickup it already had to carry its rescue supplies.

The disadvantage of using the pickup, though, is that it’s not readily seen at accident scenes.

“It’s dangerous to have that pickup on the highway instead of a bigger truck. Another truck has to block for it,” Berrier said.

Luckily, most of the accidents the department has handled lately haven’t resulted in injuries, Berrier added.

New Rescue Truck for Oneida Fire Department

Oneida >> The Oneida Fire Department has a new truck in its fleet. The OFD replaced its previous rescue or EMS truck, a 2000 model, with a new 2016 F-450. The cost of the new truck is $120,000; however, the OFD was able to bring the figure down to roughly $95,000 after receiving $25,000 for the old truck.

OFD Fire Chief Kevin Salerno said the EMS truck is the “workhorse” of the department, responding to more than 1,800 calls a year. The new truck will be used in response to medical calls, but will not be used for motor vehicle accidents according to Salerno as a converted engine to rescue pumper, which also has rescue-supply materials will be used specifically for accidents.

Along with emergency medical supplies and dressings, the new EMS truck has the ability to accommodate multiple generators on an as-needed basis.

The previous truck had exceeded its 10-year life expectancy, and was rusting out.

Salerno said typically, trucks in the OFD fleet are replaced every 10 to 15 years.

The City of Oneida borrow money to pay for rescue truck with municipal bonds, a move anticipated by the city budget for 2015. Salerno said he first put in a request for the new vehicle at the end of 2014.

The chief said the amount received for the old EMS truck was a pleasant, but unexpected surprise.

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Lakeland Fire Restores 1938 Fire Engine

Posted: Apr 28, 2016

Lakeland Fire Restores 1938 Fire Engine

Leaping Lena, a 1938 fire engine, has been restored by mechanics in the Lakeland department. Her name is Leaping Lena, she is 78 years old and she has a new facelift. We are talking about a 1938 Lakeland fire engine that was in service up to the early '70s -- but since then has been mothballed.

Lakeland Fire mechanics Jonathan Beale and Matt Warner restored Lena to her former glory. They said 3 years ago saying they saw a diamond in the rough.

“There is something about our history that’s very important. Something to keep for years to come. I want newly hired firemen to see that it was like in the 1930s," says Warner.He says many of the fire of the engine’s parts don’t exist today so they had to be custom-made. The department plans on using Lena for parades, historical and honorary roles. Her big reveal will be at Lakeland’s 100-year anniversary celebration this summer.

Former Fire Engine Is One Hot Smoker

Not everybody has the ability to glance over a 1957 International once used as a water tanker fire truck and envision a barbecue smoker.

But Meridian mechanic Terry Wilson did just that.

It took Wilson and fellow mechanic Tony Todd seven years to build a three-pit smoker. The vehicle, which once extinguished fires, now satisfies the palate with all sorts of delicacies at catered events.

The former fire truck was once a part of the Damascus Volunteer Fire Department in Kemper County.

"My dad bought it and was going to make a dump truck out of it," Wilson said. "I walked one time around the truck and said I wanted it. I saw a barbecue smoker in it. After a couple of years, my dad decided he wasn't going to do the dump truck and let me have it."

Wilson said the smoker became operational in 2013. The first catered event using the new smoker was Run for the Wall bike ride just before Memorial Day at the Lauderdale County Agri-Center. Some 400 meals were prepared during that particular event.