Authorities are investigating a crash Wednesday morning that involved a fire truck in Avondale near the campus of Xavier University, WLWT.com reported.

According to Cincinnati police, the fire truck was struck by a passenger vehicle at around 10:30 a.m. on Victory Parkway at the intersection of Rockdale Avenue, the report said.

Police report that no one was injured in the crash.

Yassin Abdikadir, 25, was arraigned Tuesday afternoon by the Erie County Court for allegedly stealing a Buffalo fire truck and crashing into parked vehicles, WGRZ.com reported.

Charges included grand larceny in the second degree, criminal possession of stolen property in the second degree, criminal mischief in the second degree, and obstructing emergency medical services. The latter charge is a misdemeanor.

By Alan M. Petrillo

Queen Creek (AZ) Fire and Medical Department has opened two new fire stations — Station 2 and Station 5 — both designed by Perlman Architects of Arizona Inc.

Vance Gray, Queen Creek’s chief, says that several years ago the department had identified a prototype station to serve the community’s needs. “We determined by working with Perlman Architects of Arizona that a just-over 13,000 square-foot building, with three apparatus bays, and 10 dorm rooms is the model and prototype fire station that will satisfy Queen Creek well into the future,” Gray points out.

Gray says the department used the prototype layout to construct Fire Station 1 in 2017 in the town’s downtown, but added a Battalion Chief’s quarters to the station. Also in 2017, the department opened Station 3, a neighborhood station that slimmed down the prototype to a two-bay station. Station 4 was completed in December of 2020, followed by Stations 2 and 5 this year, all three of them to the model prototype, he notes.

Ken Powers, principal at Perlman Architects of Arizona, says that Queen Creek’s Stations 2 and 5 “have identical floor plans that follow the prototype, but are

Bedford’s Capital Expenditure Committee met Wednesday to review the fire department’s six-year capital plan, TheBedfordCitizen.org reported. There are several six-figure items, and the biggest is targeted for fiscal year 2025: a fire engine priced at $890,000.

It will take about a year-and-a-half to build and prepare it, a fire official told the committee. By the time the new engine is in service, the apparatus that it is replacing, a 2007 Pierce model, will be more than 19 years old, the report said.

Farther down the six-year plan are replacements for the department’s two ambulances, each priced at $375,000, as well as $102,000 in other rescue equipment, according to the report.