Both Bulloch County and the city of Statesboro are equipping their fire departments with new or "new to us" trucks with a 100-foot reach.
The Statesboro Fire Department's order, totaling a little over $3.67 million, for both a new Sutphen 75-foot ladder truck and new Sutphen 100-foot aerial platform truck, was approved Tuesday evening by Statesboro City Council. Tuesday morning, the Bulloch County Board of Commissioners approved two orders for equipment at prices totaling a rounded $242,948, to outfit a used 100-foot ladder truck recently purchased for the Bulloch County Fire Department.
By obtaining a "new to us," but used, ladder truck, the county Fire Department will be able to put it into use sooner, BCFD Training Chief Mitchell Sikes said after Tuesday's meeting. The county had budgeted $1 million for buying and equipping the truck, and the truck itself cost about $600,000.