The St. Cloud fire department celebrates two new vehicles

(Knsi)-The time-honored tradition of a push-in ceremony took place on Thursday morning in the St. Cloud Fire Station 5 to welcome a brand new fire engine.

The ceremony dates from the 1830s when a new apparatus came to a fire hall. It would arrive on a trailer who stopped at horses, dropped and then pressed manually into his bay, where it would wait for the next call. This new rig took firefighters, elected officers and the community to roll up their sleeves and give it a good impetus.

According to Brett Young, head of the battalion, the push-in ceremony is a great way to celebrate the addition for department employees and residents. “We try to do it when we get a new vehicle. It is a great way to bring the community together with the fire brigade and chosen officials, and it is something unique for the fire brigade that we can celebrate, something that is for us and new things for the community that will serve them for a long time. “

The approximately 56,000 pound vehicle is used a lot. The St. Cloud fire brigade takes around 10,000 calls a year. Firefighters 5 is unique in that it wears 1,000 gallons of water, which is twice as high as the water of the other trucks of the city. It also has a top pump plate that enables lines and hoses faster, since the operator has a better look at what is pulled out and water can get to the right place.

While the engine car was the star of the ceremony, another delivery has recently been given in the spotlight. The St. Cloud is the only department in the region that releases the reaction of the dangerous materials. The new Hazmat truck is loaded with brand new technology. Young explains that “video cameras around the vehicle. The Hazmat truck, for example, has TV there. We have live feed video cameras there. Of course we can communicate with Bluetooth etc. It is right now and ten years ago we had no of these skills. “

Young adds that the Tech upgrades make a dangerous job safer. He pointed out that the operators can adjust the counters in the floor and resume current contamination data if the winds are moved instead of sending in someone to record the readings with a handheld device and risk exposure. Every firefighter in St. Cloud has a Hazmat certification and can go to calls so that the station here at home has filled potential emergencies or if the St. Cloud St. Cloud from 11 County Region is exposed to the St. Cloud St. Cloud.

Vehicles have been back steel for at least four years, which means that delivery is the end of a long, complicated process. Young points out that market conditions make maintenance and other preventive care for the success of the department even more important.

“The preventive side of what we do holds our trucks on the street and lasts as long as they do. But we also know that we put on our trucks for many hours, and we make many calls, and that also creates more maintenance and oil changes and brakes, etc., i.e. routine things, just like a vehicle … your personal car, we also get rid of this truck. “

Trucks are inspected every day and careful maintenance records are also kept. These help to extend the lifespan of engines to around 15 years.

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