It’s “out with the old and in with the new” at an Evansville fire station. WNIN’s John Gibson has the story:
A new fire engine went into service for the first time at Station 14 on Willow Road Thursday afternoon.
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Captain Adam Smith is a member of the fire department’s apparatus committee.
He helped select the new 2024 Pierce engine.
Smith says crews conducted a “push in” ceremony to put the engine in the fire station’s bay.
He says it’s based on the days of horse-drawn apparatus:
"So ever since then, when a new fire apparatus would go in service the firefighters at the station would push the apparatus back in and that would show that the apparatus is in service and ready to serve."
Smith says the new engine can hold 750 gallons of water to fight fires.
It has more than 1,000 feet of five-inch supply hose and 800 feet of two-inch attack line.
It cost the city nearly $800,000.
The new truck is named after late firefighter Daniel Kissell.
The previous Engine 14 will become a reserve truck.