Another fire truck was added to Hempfield Fire Department’s fleet of vehicles.

The engine, owned by the township, was assigned to the Hempfield #2 Fire Station. The vehicle is capable of pumping 2,000 gallons of water per minute and carries necessary tools to perform at a high level, township officials said.

According to township Manager Jason Winters, the truck cost about $550,000.

“Another great addition to help the township and surrounding community,” the fire station wrote on their Instagram account in reference to the vehicle. “We are truly grateful for the opportunity to represent our township with this new apparatus.”

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Posted by Hempfield #2 VFD on Monday, October 12, 2020

The purchase came months after the township added two Sutphen SL75 Mid-Mount Aerial Ladder trucks, which can fight fires in residential, commercial and industrial buildings, to the Adamsburg and Bovard fire stations. The trucks, which cost about $860,000 each, replaced two older vehicles at both stations.

The engine, which is the third Hempfield Fire Department truck painted silver and blue, and both ladder trucks were purchased from the Ohio-based Sutphen Corporation.

The trucks reflect changes made to Hempfield’s fire service over the past year. In March 2019, leaders started work to combine the township’s 12 fire stations under one department. The move came ahead of a New Jersey-based Insurance Services Office Inc. rating, or ISO, which takes staffing and response times into account for its score.

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