Dozens of people embraced a beautiful fall morning Monday to watch the city break ground on a new fire station, Recorder.com reported.

Mayor Roxann Wedegartner kicked off the ceremony at the former open-air market property on Main Street near Coombs Avenue before Fire Chief Robert Strahan addressed the crowd and welcomed speakers from the project’s consulting and design firm, as well as the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the city’s Fire Station Building Committee, the report said.

The station at 41 Main Street is expected to be completed in a little more than a year at a cost of $21.7 million, according to the report.

The Mt. Pleasant City Council approved the purchase of a new 100 foot Midmount Ascendant aerial for the Mt. Pleasant Fire Department to replace the current 1990 aerial used by the department, southeastiowaunion.com reported.

According to the proposal presented to the City Council, the purchase price for this new truck is $1,810,000, the report said.

The new truck will seat five firefighters, carry 300 gallons of water, and is capable of pumping 2,000 gallons of water. The department’s current truck does not have a water tank.

The fire department is hopeful to take delivery of the new truck in 16 to 18 months.

The Renfrew Fire Department was able to check some items off its shopping list at the last Town Council meeting, RenfrewToday.ca reported.

At the November 8 meeting, a fire official brought forward a pair of recommendations to fix the fire hall’s roof as well as to add a new truck to the fleet, the report said.

Fixing the roof has been a long time coming, the fire official said, according to the report. The bid to repair the roof came in at $64,108.80, which is $15,000 below what was set aside for the project, the report said. 

Next, the fire official told council that just one bid was submitted to replace a 2011 Dodge Ram 1500 quad cab truck. The 2022 Ford F150 Supercab will replace an important vehicle in the department’s emergency response fleet for calls both in town and for neighboring municipalities, the report said. Council approved the purchase of the new truck, which came in at $70,586.69, around $600 over budget, the report said.

Construction will start next month on Central Kitsap Fire & Rescue’s Fire Station 57 at 14500 NW Coho Run, near Lake William Symington and Camp Union, djc.com reported.

Station 57 will have four apparatus bays and quarters for five personnel, the report said.

Station 57 – Lake Symington

Address: Northwest corner of the intersection of NW Holly Rd and NW Coho Run near Camp Union
Serving the Lake Symington, Lake Tahuya, Crosby, Holly and surrounding Seabeck communities
Architect: Rice Fergus Miller
Construction period: December 2022 – December 2023
Size: 10,993 square feet
Design: 4-Apparatus Bay, 5-Dorm facility