The new fire station is at 411 Arkansas 229, which is on the north end of town.

"Volume is up in this part of town," Haskell Fire Chief Brian Cotten said. "We needed a station on this side of town, especially with the development of the Silver Springs subdivision." Cotten said the department has 18 members and nine emergency medical technicians. The department now operates with part-time, paid employees.

he main fire station, Central Station, is in the middle of town at 121 Cardinal Lane behind the Haskell City Hall. In 2005, the city received $95,000 in general-improvement funds from the Arkansas Legislature to remodel the main station.

The second station, referred to as Station 3, is on Grand Avenue, which is on the other side of the railroad tracks on the east end of town. Cotten said this assures uninterrupted fire protection when there are trains on the tracks.

Construction on this second fire station was started in 2005 and completed in 2006. The city received a $50,000 block grant from the Arkansas Development of Rural Services to build the second station.

The third station, referred to as Station 2, is the newest facility.

Cotten said the city took bids on the new fire station with the lowest bid of $476,000 coming from eco Construction of Little Rock, which completed the project in November 2015.

Construction on the new fire station started in August 2015, and the department moved into the new facility on Nov. 30. It is a 2,500-square-foot meta

They will decorate their truck for the parade and ride it during the Jersey City parade on March 13.

The annual Jersey City St. Patrick's Day Parade will be held on March 13.

The town of Ibapah received a big donation, which will help this isolated community when a fire breaks out.

There's only one paved road to get to town, which ends at the Goshute Indian Reservation just a few miles south.

Life is even tougher when there's a big wildfire burning nearby. Ibapah has a volunteer fire department, but they often have to call for help with those bigger fires.

The town has two brush trucks and a structure truck for fighting fires. However, fire hydrants are scarce for the 140 or so who live in Ibapah and the Goshute Reservation.

But, sure enough, during a ceremony in Wendover Friday, Henriod was handed the keys to a tinder fire truck capable of carrying 1,000 gallons of water.

"We are making a gift of our 1983 GMC FMC fire pumper truck," said Stuart Richardson. "The truck runs great."

Richardson is with the West Jordan Rotary Club. The club bought the truck to give to a small town in Mexico that one of the club's members was from, but too much red tape kept them from getting it across the border.

So, they found Ibapah.

"This truck only has 18,000 miles on it. It's going to work well for the Ibapah people for a long time to come," Richardson said.

The West Jordan and South Jordan fire departments also donated hoses, nozzles and turnout gear.