After a four and a half year wait, the Ringle Fire Department celebrated the arrival of a new and upgraded fire truck Monday thanks to support from the community, WAOW.com reported.

The fire truck cost over half a million dollars and will be used for putting out fires, as well as assisting car accidents with extrication gear, the report said.

A Kansas City Fire Department truck was involved in a crash Monday afternoon near West 43rd Street and Madison Avenue, KMBC.com reported.

Police said the ladder truck was on its way to an emergency call and had its lights and siren activated as it was heading west on West 43rd Street.

Accident investigators said a tan Lincoln MKX was heading north on Madison Avenue and the vehicles collided in the intersection.

Police said the ladder truck went off the road to the right, hitting three wooden utility poles. Two were sheared off and the third was splintered and unstable, the report said.

No firefighters were hurt. The driver and sole occupant of the Lincoln was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to the report.

The crash is under investigation.

The Leland Fire/Rescue is adding a new fire engine to its fleet, wwayTV3.com reported.

Engine 53 has been ordered, nearly three months after members of the group traveled to Louisiana for a pre-construction meeting on the new fire truck, the report said.

This $800,000 engine is set up differently compared to the Fire/Rescue’s current engine companies and will carry additional equipment for water rescue, vehicle extrication, technical rescue, and hazardous materials incidents, according to the report.

Engine 53 and Truck 53 members will also have additional training in special operations and run district wide for any major incidents, the report said.

Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District was awarded $50,241 to replace its 20-year-old air filling station, which is used to fill firefighters’ self-contained breathing apparatus and SCUBA bottles, according to a news release, Patch.com reported.

In addition, the grant will be used to purchase equipment to annually test breathing masks, hazardous materials masks, WMD masks, and other equipment. The Lincolnshire-Riverwoods Fire Protection District will replace all their out-of-date radios, the report said.

The federal grant funds are intended to help the local fire departments improve and replace personnel safety equipment, upgrade to the latest technology, purchase new fire trucks, and hire new firefighters.

FEMA and the Department of Homeland Security award these grants through the AFG program. According to the news release, the purpose of the AFG program is to help fire departments improve their ability to protect the health and safety of the public and their personnel. Since 2001, the AFG program has awarded approximately $7.7 billion in grants to fire departments nationwide that go through a thorough application process, the report said.