Salisbury Fire Department
to Receive New Haz Mat Vehicle Today
The Salisbury Fire Department will be taking receipt of a new Haz Mat tractor-trailer today, helping to consolidate and streamline our current apparatus fleet.
The Salisbury Fire Department purchased a Freightliner tractor and a 33 foot Hackney trailer to eventually replace the current Haz Mat 1. As of right now, the department is using a donated 1983 beverage truck, along with another trailer, and still do not have enough space for our Haz Mat equipment.
The Salisbury Fire Department applied and was awarded $175,000 through the Assistance to Firefighters Grant last year specifically for a Haz Mat trailer. The AFG Award required a 10%match of $17,500, for a total of $157,500 in total grant funds coming to the City coffers. The Salisbury Fire Department purchased the tractor at a cost of $76,581 during the fiscal year of FY09 using surplussed funds. The tractor and trailer were purchased without equipment; all of our existing equipment will be transferred to the new unit, negating any new purchases.
As this is a tractor-trailer, a Class A license will be required to drive the apparatus. This will require some of our current driver/operators to upgrade their license to Class A status. The department will offset the cost by using some of our currently licensed Class A firefighters to help teach.
The new Haz Mat 1 is not expected to be in service until approximately the middle of February, while the Salisbury Fire Department does as much equipment mounting and in-service training in house to save money.
It is not unusual for fire departments to use tractor trailers to transport special equipment. Both Cambridge and Millville Fire Departments currently utilize tractor trailers in their fleet.
The Salisbury Fire Department is the primary source for Haz Mat mitigation in Wicomico County and can be called anywhere to assist per mutual aid agreements.
The Salisbury Fire Department is looking forward to placing the new Haz Mat 1 in service to help better serve and protect the citizens of Salisbury.
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13 comments:
Current driver operators required to get a Class A CDL to drive the tractor trailer. Not currently in the job requirement and no extra pay incentives to do this yet it will be required....
Jim Ireton, Gary Comegys and Louise Smith you all will be held accountable for raping the tax payers. We are in some extremely difficult times and you people continue to tax and spend. Salisbury needs its own Tea Party and we need to get rid of these irresponsible clowns as soon as possible.
I'm just still glad we have a new Mayor !
We go from having a dictatorial Mayor that's as vindictive as the day is long - to having one who doesn't have the backbone of a chocolate eclair.
Talk about "can't win for losing", this is it!
From what I was told during a previous career as an OC bus driver, the CDL is not required of volunteer firemen operating Company equipment. When those people applied for an OC bus driving job though, they had to get the CDL from the DMV. If the former (beverage) truck had air brakes it too would normally require a CDL so, if the drivers of that vehicle were not required to get a CDL then, it should not be required now.
Millville has no such vehicle in their fleet.
"The Salisbury Fire Department purchased the tractor at a cost of $76,581 during fiscal the fiscal year of FY09 using surplussed funds."
What other "surplussed funds" do they have?
How can they claim to need to raise taxes?
When are they going to open the books?
I'm very curious , when have we ever needed a hazmat team or equipment? Is this another piece of equipment because SFD doesn't have enough calls to support the FD?
You all can sit there an bitch untill there is a major incident an its needed just like the dive unit.
Is this press release supposed to be taking as gospel truth? The idiot that provided the information will only be saving money for licensing if they intended to enroll in Wor Wic for truck driving class. Those with Class B or C licenses will still need to go to DMV and apply for a permit for a class A, cost about $100 each. Then they will need to learn to actually drive the tractor, pull the trailer, park the combination unit and manuever on the streets and highways. We already know they can't manuever the tower truck look how many times they ripped the bumper off of that.
CDL's are not required when going from station to an emergency BUT it is required when joy riding around town. ALL should have Class A non commercial licenses to be in compliance with the law. Having a Class A non commercial license would cover them no matter what vehicle they were driving.
Now here is another thought. IF that trailer will be carrying anything that requires a hazmat placard the person(s) applying for HazMat endorsement on their license will have to undergo a background check by Homeland Security. Can everyone at SFD applying for this endorsement pass this background check?
they dont transport hazmats.
Few firefighters in Salisbury are happy to see this rig.This is a toy for Gordys boys. There are very few members who give a damn about a hazmat or the clown running it. If you think that tower truck was hard to get around you aint seen nothing. These idiots will have it wrecked before you know it and the taxpayers will eat the cost. More BS from the Gordy fire department.
They need that hazmat truck to clean up those feathery white puffy spots on rt 50
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