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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

Posted: Feb 15, 2016

Forsyth County (GA) Breaks Ground on New Fire Station

Forsyth County officials broke ground Friday for a new fire station designed to improve service and response times in the heavily-populated southeast Forsyth area.

The new four-stall Station Six will be just off Peachtree Parkway on Brookwood Road and is expected to be complete in 12 to 14 months. Fire Chief Danny Bowman said the area is served now by Fire Station 10, which is some miles away. It's the first new station that's not a replacement to be built in-county since 1999.

For more information, view www.ajc.com

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Posted: Feb 15, 2016

Greenville (MS) Firefighters Get 100 New Radios

Greenville Fire Department has purchased 100 new handheld radios, new mobile units for all of the firetrucks and command staff vehicles and base station radios for all of the stations and the fire dispatch center thanks to a $245,000 Assistance to Firefighters grant.

Fire Chief Ruben Brown said there was a definite need for new radios. Firefighters had been using radios that were surplus after the 1996 Olympics.

Brown added that the previous equipment was "not durable and not really fire department capable."

Brown said the new radios are Mississippi Wireless Information Network capable, the state communication system the entire county plans to upgrade to within the next two years.

For more information, view www.sunherald.com

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Prichard: One Working Fire Truck on Sunday and Two Fires

Posted: Feb 15, 2016

Prichard: One Working Fire Truck on Sunday and Two Fires

The Prichard Fire Department is investigating two separate fires that burned early Sunday morning. The Mobile Fire Department helped put one of them out, and FOX10 News has learned that's because Prichard only had one operating fire truck Sunday.

Around the same time, the Mobile Fire Department was dealing with a fire on Peterson Road, two streets down from the first fire. We're told it's normal for Mobile firefighters to help with multiple fires in Prichard. However, Prichard spokesman, Phillip Stiell says since last week, Prichard only has one operating fire truck for the whole city, while the other two are getting repairs.

"As I understand it, the repairs that are necessary now are because something is worn out and needs to be replaced, but it's nothing that we aren't used to."

Stiell also says the department will be getting two more, bringing the total number of trucks for the city to five. One of them is from the Daphne Fire Department. In the meantime, Stiell says, the Mobile Fire Department or other city departments will help when needed.

Fire Truck Ends Up in Ditch After Being Cut Off by Civilian

TOWN OF CLAY, N.Y. -- Slick roads sent a lot of vehicles sliding in Central New York Saturday morning; among them was a firetruck from the Moyers Corners Fire Department. The department says one of its firetrucks was responding to an assistance call from the Liverpool Fire Department when a car pulled out in front of it.

All of the firefighters on board had their seatbelts on and nobody was hurt. The firetruck itself was also unharmed, it just needed a tow out of the ditch.