No matter the emergency, fire crews want to be best prepared with the latest tools and resources.
“It’s pretty quick-paced,” Ellis County Fire Department Captain #6 Chris Cline said. “As soon as you hear your pager, drop what we’re doing, we’re running in, putting on gear.”
They are difficult to put out and not uncommon for this time of the year.
Ellis County firefighters said just in the last three years, there have been a significant amount of wildfires.
“There was about 7,200 acres of wildfire that had actually burned,” Ellis County Fire and Emergency Management Director Darin Myers said. “The year previous to that, we had about 8,400 acres just in Ellis County.”
They know just how important it is to be prepared, and Ellis County is about to upgrade an important piece of equipment to battle the flames.
A new customized truck.
“This is like a once in every ten year event to get a new truck.” Cline said. “And it’s even better yet because it’s replacing a 1978 big international five speed manual transmission.”
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