Brooklyn Park (MN) Approves Adding Two Fire Apparatus

The Brooklyn Park Fire Department is getting two new fire engines, reports CCX Media.

The identical trucks, costing close to $643,000 each, will replace two aging trucks which are getting too rusty in the frame rails.

The two new engines will be identical pumper trucks built by CustomFIRE in Osceola, Wisconsin. The city will pay just over $500,000 right away out of the general fund, with the rest being financed via a 10-year lease. The city will own the trucks outright at the end of the lease.

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