By Pat Maurer
Correspondent
Clare Fire Department is getting a new fire engine (pumper) this week. Clare Fire Chief Jim Chapman said the new truck, which was ordered last January, has been being built. The truck chassis was built in Charlotte and then taken to Sioux Falls, South Dakota where the fire apparatus portion was built and mounted on the chassis. Then the truck, now ready to be finished came back to Michigan and was sent to CSI Emergency Apparatus in Graying for the finishing touches (lettering and radio installation) on the department’s new $600,000 fire engine which was ordered almost a year ago.
The cost of the truck is financed through a bond issue which also paid for new air packs, and a new Department of Public Works Vacuum Truck.
The new truck is expected to be delivered to the CFD by the end of next week, Chief Chapman said.