The Olean City Fire Department’s state-issued foam sprayer proved useful Wednesday at a railroad disaster one county over.

Several Olean firefighters responded in the early morning hours with a trailer carrying the sprayer to a derailed Norfolk Southern train that was leaking ethanol in the Chautauqua County town of Ripley. Fire Chief Robert Bell said the sprayer was dispatched at 12:26 a.m. to the scene of a reported 16 tipped railcars, of which two tankers had sustained damage spilling their contents.

The foam is sprayed to dilute volatile chemicals and oil spills or to douse severe blazes, Bell said.

Indianapolis Fire Department officials unveiled a consolidation plan Tuesday that would include closing two fire houses, repurposing another into a firefighter fitness center and building a new station that's expected to cost at least $3 million.

IFD Chief Ernest Malone released the details of his plan to the press an hour before he was set to speak with community organizers  Tuesday evening at the Broad Ripple Village Association meeting, one of the neighborhoods that would be affected by consolidation.

The pitch, which the department is calling its "2016 Redeployment Effort," focuses on a "holistic review" of IFD by putting resources in high-volume areas and cutting costs. No firefighters would lose jobs but could get reassigned to other stations.

Under the plan, Butler-Tarkington would lose its fire station — Station 16 at 5555 N. Illinois St. — as part of a consolidation with nearby Station 32 at 6330 Guilford Ave. in the heart of Broad Ripple. Its engine would relocate to Station 32, too.

Two locomotives with 34 rail cars were involved in the derailment. Two of those were carrying ethanol. One car had a puncture as well as material leaking from the cover plate. Both the car and the cover plate have been patched and a bucket is catching any dripping material.

In the second car, there's ethanol leaking from a gasket and a bucket is catching that dripping material as well.

One rail car was carrying propane but there's no damage to that car and no material being released.

There were no injuries in the crash. There's no timeline yet on when the cars will be back on the rail, and the cause of the derailment is under investigation.

The new ambulance will replace a used ambulance the fire division purchased years ago that has air brakes that have the potential to be hazardous when transporting patients.

The fire division also recently received a $60,500 grant from the Department of Homeland Security for new rescue tools.

Firefighters received new spreaders, cutters, an air bag system, a new power cot and cribbing, which provide temporary support during rescue operations.

“We do about 120 car wrecks per year. Maybe about a quarter of those we actually have to cut somebody out of a car. But of course when we do, our experience has been we really need to do some extensive work to try to get these people cut out,” Keller said.