The Yakima Fire Fighters Association is asking for an apparatus plan that was approved in 2015 to be put in effect. In that plan each fire engine would have a 12-year lifetime service. However because of funding the plan has not moved forward. The City Of Yakima Spokesperson said “the idea is if there is an inventory of the things we believe we'll need and if we have the money available we will go ahead and do that. But in the case of the apparatus like many other pieces of equipment in the city we simply haven't had the resources to replace them up to this point, but the plan remains to do that over time.” Due to the aging apparatus firefighters have run into mechanical issues during the most pressing times. The Vice President of the Yakima Firefighters Association, Ryan Croffut said “We were dispatched to a call when we discovered it. We had to call out of service another closest unit responding to fill the call of service, we were dispatched to.