Charlottetown is getting a new fire truck.
City council voted Monday to spend just under $1.2 million to buy a 100-foot Pierce aerial ladder truck with a bucket on the end. Micmac Fire Safety Source Ltd. won the tender bid.
"It's going to be going into Station One," said Randy MacDonald, fire chief, after the September council meeting.
"It's brand new," said MacDonald. "It's not even in production yet. It will be in production in the next couple of weeks.
"It's going to look very similar to what we have there now but it will have a basket on the end of it where two firefighters will be able to work, to perform rescue operations from a window, for example," said MacDonald.
The department is expecting to take delivery of the new truck sometime in 2013.
The existing arial truck, known as Ladder One will then move to Station Two on St. Peter's Road.
First of all this one super station you talk about was in an outdated study done almost 10 years ago and would not work now with the growth the city has seen since the study was done and secondly, yes the city needs a new ladder truck as the truck that it is replacing is almost 25 years old and Ladder 1 is 17 years old and I know as a citizen of the city of Charlottetown I would much rather a brand new truck pulling up to my house and helping with a second or third floor rescue then an aging truck that is at the end of its life cycle as an emergency response vehicle.