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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

Garden City (GA) Donates Fire Apparatus to Savannah Tech

Posted: Mar 29, 2016

Garden City (GA) Donates Fire Apparatus to Savannah Tech

After a big donation from Garden City, students at Savannah Technical College now have a new learning tool. A retired fire engine was donated to give hands-on training opportunities to STC Fire Science students. The fully functional 1979 Ford served Garden City citizens for more than 35 years.

"Giving them the hands-on aspect and their own firetruck to train on will help prepare them to get a job and when these chiefs hire them for their departments and go to serve the community, they're ready to hit the ground running," said STC Fire Science Department Head Tony Faust.

Faust says the program is comprised of high schoolers, military members and more.

Skagit County Fire District (WA) Gets New Fire Apparatus

Skagit County Fire District 2 has a new fire engine.

The 2016 Pierce-manufactured engine was put into service at the district's McLean Road fire station west of Mount Vernon in October, Chief Bryan Ekkelkamp said.

The new engine holds 1,000 gallons of water and can pump up to 1,500 gallons a minute, Ekkelkamp said.

The engine cost the district about $400,000. It is the first fire vehicle the district has purchased in about a decade, Ekkelkamp said.

The district will celebrate 75 years of service next year.

The district, which Madlung said has an annual budget of about $500,000 between its two stations, saved up to purchase the new engine.

Two Donated Fire Apparatus Headed to Enpalme, Mexico

Two fire engines rolled away from south Stockton for the final time Monday morning, leaving on a 1,100-mile journey to the coastal city of Empalme, Mexico, on the Gulf of California."From Sonora Street to the state of Sonora," Stockton resident Rosalinda Galaviz, a member of the traveling party, said as she stood outside Station No.

The 1990s-era engines reached the end of their usefulness to Stockton a few years ago. Though they might have been worth $5,000 apiece in scrap metal, the city opted instead to donate the engines to 70,000-resident Empalme, one of Stockton's seven Sister Cities.

The engines "will be of high importance ... because they will reinforce the existing equipment of the city's fire department and the rural area," Ruben Aguirre, president of Empalme's Sister Cities association, wrote in an email.

The engines headed off for their new homeland after being sprinkled with holy water by Bishop Stephen Blaire. Behind one of the wheels was Tracy firefighter Clarence Marquez, a lifelong Stockton resident. Roger Gray, a retired Stockton firefighter who had not driven a fire engine since 2002, was behind the other wheel.

Hidalgo (TX) Awarded New Fire Apparatus

Hidalgo will also pay about $1,800 for the acquisition of a new fire truck. Hidalgo County Precinct 2 Commissioner Eddie Cantu gifted the city the new fire truck, but capped the expenses at $90,000, Gonzalez said. The truck, however, needed some additional equipment, which the city will pay for through the approved funds.