Fire Department’s new truck nears delivery

EAGLE STAFF

Workers in Delisle are finishing a new unit for the Rosetown Fire Department.

Staff with Otex Manufacturing there are installing lights, sirens, radios and tool boxes, a report from the department to the Nov. 3 town council meeting said.

The town and four surrounding municipalities are paying for the new command/wildland truck, Mayor Trevor Hay said. It will replace a van that the five parties had paid for.

“When we looked at this replacement truck, we decided to upgrade to a command truck with a wildland truck,” Hay said. “I guess we’ll see it in a few weeks when it’s finished,” he added, expressing appreciation to the rural municipalities.

It will “really take a load off a big truck from being out in the soft ground or a place where a big truck shouldn’t be,” said councillor Greg Carlson.