| A look at some of our vehicle accomplishments:
OUR
NEW STRUCTURE-FIRE ENGINE
Our
long-awaited FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency)-financed
structure fire engine, Engine No. 44-13, is here in Colestin!
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After
nearly a two-year wait while CDF built the engine for us, and
after outfitting it with parts, the engine is finished and has
been put into full-time service within our district. It is now
housed at Station No. 1 at Colestin, in the center of the district.
Steve
Avgeris brought it to the Friday, September 24th, Board Meeting
in Hilt for those present to see it in its complete form for the
first time.
This
engine is the result of a grant award by FEMA that CRFD member
Lisa Buttrey was responsible for writing and getting for the District:
of the $65,000 we requested, we were given $58,500 to purchase
a "good-used" engine and outfit it specifically for
fighting structure fires. (A brand-new structure-fire engine with
only standard operating basics can cost about $210,000.)
Most
of the engine work was finished by last fall, but it has taken
the intervening time since then to completely outfit the rig with
peripheral parts and equipment, and get it painted, insured, and
ready to go.
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HILT
VFD'S NEW FIRE & RESCUE RIG
This
message is for all of our Volunteer Responders:
"The
Hilt Volunteer Fire Company Board of Directors wishes to thank
all Colestin and Hilt volunteers who helped staff the Hornbrook
CDF Station this [last] summer. The proceeds from that effort
enabled [the] Hilt Department to procure the Hilt Rescue Vehicle
44-41 [pictured below]. THANK YOU for your time and dedication!"
(this
notice was originally published in The Buzz, Sept./Oct. 2004.)
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