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DINUBA, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Dinuba Fire Department officially welcomed its brand-new ladder truck, Truck 31, with a accepted “push-in ceremony” connected Tuesday.
A "push-in ceremony" is simply a solemnisation rooted successful firefighting past and fueled by years of enactment from section and authorities leaders.
Though Truck 31 has already been successful work for astir a month, the ceremonial served arsenic the ceremonial infinitesimal of designation for the captious caller summation to the department.
Dinuba Fire Chief Greg Chastain said that the pushing ceremonial dates backmost good implicit 100 years, originating erstwhile horses drew occurrence equipment.
“So, firefighters would instrumentality backmost to the station, and they would person to physically propulsion their instrumentality backmost in. We support that contented conscionable to grant those that came earlier us,” helium said.
The symbolic enactment is utilized to people the authoritative introduction of a caller occurrence motortruck oregon ladder into service, and Truck 31 is nary mean vehicle.
The state-of-the-art apparatus features a ladder that tin widen 107 feet into the aerial and includes the latest successful firefighting technology.
“Having the quality to person a h2o watercourse precocious up successful the aerial and beryllium capable to space it down into a gathering is precise important,” Chastain said. “It truly allows america to support the structures that are astir that gathering astatine that point. Also, for rescuing radical who are trying to get retired of those windows.”
City leaders and residents gathered alongside California State Senator Melissa Hurtado for the celebration. Mayor Rachel Nerio-Guerrero said the infinitesimal was made imaginable done assemblage collaboration and governmental advocacy.
“This is an breathtaking time that we get to observe that we got a caller occurrence motortruck with the help, of course, of Senator Melissa Hurtado,” said Mayor Nerio-Guerrero. “We’re conscionable truly blessed that we were capable to get this.”
Hurtado shared however the effort to unafraid backing for the instrumentality had taken astir a decade.
“So this is simply a seven-year travel — possibly a small spot longer — successful trying to supply the resources to the communities for nationalist information reasons that they request to support them much secure,” Hurtado said.
The urgency down replacing Dinuba’s aging instrumentality became much evident earlier this twelvemonth erstwhile a large occurrence ripped done a downtown flat complex, displacing much than 20 families.
Multiple radical had to beryllium rescued from the building’s 2nd floor, and the section had to telephone successful extracurricular agencies with ladder trucks to assist.
Chastain said the department’s erstwhile motortruck — much than 2 decades aged — had go progressively unreliable.
“Our existent motortruck is 21 years old. It spent a sizeable magnitude of clip successful the store implicit the past fewer years,” helium said. “We’re conscionable precise thankful to the legislator for getting america this backing and allowing america to person this new, reliable equipment.”
The acquisition of Truck 31 and its accompanying instrumentality was made imaginable done authorities backing secured by Hurtado.
Now officially portion of the fleet, the motortruck represents much than conscionable an upgrade successful exertion — it’s a awesome of resilience, readiness and renewed nationalist information for the metropolis of Dinuba.
