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Meriden Firefighters Prepares for New Fire Truck
The city is practicing with a New Haven truck as it prepares for the final product.
The wait for the Meriden Fire Department to get a new apparatus is nearly over.
The fire department said it is expecting to get a new white truck sometime this fall, an apparatus that is being paid for partially by a Meriden city grant and by a $600,000 grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
On the Meriden Engine 4's Facebook page, the fire department New Haven has allowed Meriden to use their reserve ladder truck for the purpose of a driver training.
The Record-Journal reported that the department began the training this past week.
"We’ll be able to make much tighter turns, be able to get into all complexes much quicker and more efficiently than we normally would be able to,” Ryan Dunn, the Meriden Fire Department’s director of training, told the newspaper.
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