VIDEO: Emergency response time to roughly one-third of the island’s population got just a little bit quicker with two brand new pumper trucks added to the Guam Fire Department’s fleet of emergency vehicles.
The new trucks were welcomed at a commissioning ceremony on Friday at Adelup. One will be assigned to the Yona Fire Station while the other will operate out of the Dededo Fire Station.
Acting Fire Chief Joey San Nicolas said that the trucks were funded by a Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs grant of about $1 million.
“What you see before you is years and years, hours and hours of hard work, going as back as far as 2019 ... followed by going through COVID-19, which extended the lead time for the manufacture of fire trucks all across the nation to as much as three years, which is what we have here,” he said. “The timing could not have been any better.”