Advanced fire truck coming
The City of Cookeville will be getting one of most advanced and expensive fire trucks it has ever purchased next year following approval of the Cookeville City Council last week.
The council approved the only bid of $688,720 from Rush Truck Sales for what’s called a 75-foot quint fire truck, which is expected to arrive in Cookeville within one year.
The quint is named for its five major features — ground ladders, aerial ladder, water supply tank, fire pump and hoses.
The truck the city is purchasing also has a 75-foot ladder that can be used for fighting larger structure fires.
Cookeville Fire Chief John Kendrick said some of the advanced features the new truck will have means that city firefighters no longer have to stretch hoses up a ladder because the new truck has a prepiped water way that is capable of moving 2,000 gallons per minute.
