{"id":3168,"date":"2018-10-16T18:43:19","date_gmt":"2018-10-17T00:43:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/?p=3168"},"modified":"2018-10-25T18:46:36","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T00:46:36","slug":"new-ladder-truck-on-the-horizon-for-lockwood-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/new-ladder-truck-on-the-horizon-for-lockwood-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"New ladder truck on the horizon for Lockwood Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Originally published in the 10\/12\/18 print edition of Yellowstone County News.&nbsp;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>LOCKWOOD \u2014 Sometime during the next two to three years the Lockwood Fire District Board must consider replacing its ladder fire truck, an expenditure that could reach almost a million dollars, said Lockwood Fire Chief John Staley during the October meeting of the board last Wednesday. The good news is that the district is in a good position financially to handle the replacement.<\/p>\n<p>The current vehicle is 25 years old and has already had an engine replacement that cost $400,000. Its biggest problem now is a pump that frequently springs a leak. While repairs are still possible, they will become increasingly difficult as replacement parts are no longer being made and they must be acquired from used vehicles, a process that can be lengthy.<\/p>\n<p>Frosty Erben, chairman of the fire board, said that he <!--more-->thought they should begin the process sooner rather than later because the cost will only increase with each passing year.<\/p>\n<p>Staley said that a used ladder truck, less than five years old, would cost at least $675,000. A demo would be at least $775,000 and a brand new truck would be at least $850,000, \u201cfor now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The district has &#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/online-newspaper-access\/\">Rea<span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">d the full story by subscribing online here or by reading the print edition.<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> &nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally published in the 10\/12\/18 print edition of Yellowstone County News.&nbsp; LOCKWOOD \u2014 Sometime during the next two to three years the Lockwood Fire District Board must consider replacing its ladder fire truck, an expenditure that could reach almost a &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/new-ladder-truck-on-the-horizon-for-lockwood-fire\/\">read more<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2113,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,62],"tags":[988,176,987],"class_list":["post-3168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lockwood","category-yellowstone-county","tag-frosty-erben","tag-john-staley","tag-lockwood-fire-district-board"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2113"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3168"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3169,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3168\/revisions\/3169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.yellowstonecountynews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}