Tuesday, April 13, 1999
Group works to buy fire truck
Old equipment hampers squad
BY MARIE McCAIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
GLENDALE — Hoping to help the village purchase a new fire department pumper truck, a citizens group has embarked on a campaign to raise $105,000.
A group called Glendale Citizens for Fire Protection hopes to disseminate information and solicit money from residents to buy the village a new $205,000 pumper truck, according to group co-chair Stan Grueninger.
A proposal for the purchase of a new truck has been presented to village council and could be discussed during a special council meeting today.
Under the plan, the village will chip in $100,000 from its village plan and general improvement fund along with resident donations.
Mr. Grueninger, who co-chairs the citizens group with Robert Boggs, said informational meetings for residents will be held within the coming month.
“Any help they can give us is greatly appreciated because we're going to need it,” Fire Chief Thomas Thacker said, adding that Glendale has the most outdated firetrucks in use in Hamilton County.
The older truck was bought new for $35,000 in 1960, he said.
It has a manual transmis sion and uses gasoline instead of diesel fuel, has a two-person cab and is capable of pumping 1,000 gallons of water per minute. In addition, if it needs minor repairs, there is no local repair shop and a part could take three to six weeks to obtain.
It is used as a backup to the village's newer truck, a 1980 Pirsch. It is also considered an outdated piece of equipment, but it is more modern with greater com partment space, a five-person cab, a diesel engine and an automatic transmission.
Glendale Firefighter Sean Canto added it is best that the village act now. “If they wait two or three more years the price (of a newer pumper) is going to go up,” he said.
“In Ohio this piece of apparatus is a collector's item. It's not for fighting fires anymore,” Chief Thacker said, adding it has been valued between $2,500 and $3,000.
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