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Lake Sweetwater VFD receives new brush fire truck

From The Sweetwater Reporter
Members of the Lake Sweetwater Volunteer Fire Department have a new fire truck. The truck designed and built by Steele Manufacturing of Haskell, Texas is a state of the art fire truck, whose primary use will be to battle range fire.
Grass fires are the most prevalent in the department’s primary area of [...]

Incident command vehicle debuts in Williamson County

By Suzanne Haberman in The Community Impact Leander Cedar Park
See photo here.
Williamson County sported its new Emergency Management Incident Command Vehicle, measuring 38 feet long and 13.5 feet high, on the Georgetown Square Feb. 2. The vehicle will be used to respond to local, regional and state disasters and serve as command center. Equipped for [...]

Bronte VFD welcomes fire truck

By Eric Woods in The San Angelo Standard-Times
Photo by Jason Hooks in The San Angelo Standard-Times
Purchasing a new water truck is almost impossible for the firefighters of the Bronte Volunteer Fire Department, especially since they have to run their program on a budget of $4,500 per year. If the 20 volunteers need any more money, [...]

Austin/Travis County EMS Ford F-450

Austin-Travis County EMS 2010 Ford F-450 Super Duty Extended Cab/Wheeled Coach Type I.
One of 2 delivered.
Photo Courtesy of Seth Granville
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Lockhart to purchase new fire truck

One of the City of Lockhart’s major projected purchases for this fiscal year has been approved – and came in under budget, to boot.
The Lockhart Fire Department announced during a brief meeting of the Lockhart City Council on Tuesday evening that bids had been received for a new fire truck, a custom-cab-and-chassis pumper truck [...]

Bayou Vista Fire Department gets new truck

By T.J. Aulds in The Galveston County Daily News
It’s 2 feet too long to fit in the fire bay, but Bayou Vista Fire Chief T.J. Lyke couldn’t be happier with his department’s new truck. Hurricane Ike destroyed the department’s main fire fighting apparatus. Two weeks ago, a new pumper truck with more capacity than the [...]

McKinney fire department history receives new shine

A piece of McKinney Fire Department history left last Monday, but only temporarily, as the Central Fire Station saw two antique fire trucks, a 1932 ladder truck and 1924 engine, towed off for repairs and refurbishment. In a few months, the highlights of the fire department museum will return with a new coat of paint [...]