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Fire damages multiple South Plattsburgh apartments; no injuries reported
Investigation of scene still underway Share Updated: 12:49 PM EDT Mar 15, 2021
Fire damages multiple South Plattsburgh apartments; no injuries reported
Investigation of scene still underway Share Updated: 12:49 PM EDT Mar 15, 2021
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Kennebunk Select Board OKs purchase of new fire engine
KENNEBUNK, Maine – You’re going to see a new fire engine around town sometime next year.
The select board last week unanimously approved $587,750 for the purchase of a new 2021 pumper engine for the Kennebunk Fire Rescue Department from the Ohio-based Sutphen Corporation.
At the annual town meeting in July, voters approved the purchase and issuance of bonds totaling $600,000 to replace Engine 2, a 1992 Kovatch Firefox that is currently kept at the West Kennebunk Fire Station, according to Fire Chief Jeffrey Rowe.
To approve the purchase, however, the select board first needed to waive its purchasing policy on sole-source buying in order to take advantage of the same program the town used when it acquired Engine 4 in 2018. In that instance, the town went with the Houston-Galveston Area Council Collaborative, or HGAC, a bid and purchasing program that “collects pricing every two to three years on commonly purchased equipm