Niverville fire department gets new water tanker

Niverville Fire and EMS received their new water tanker on Tuesday, which will provide fire suppression to areas of the town that don’t have fire hydrants.

“It was everything that we had sort of hoped for and more. We have a great working relationship with the manufacturers at Seahawk and Acres and they were able to put everything that we put on paper into the product that you see behind me right now. It’s been really good,” said fire chief Keith Bueckert.

More than 700 homes in the core and the commercial business park are without fire hydrants. The $580,226 tanker can hold 9,464 litres of water plus it has two drop down tanks that can hold 11,355 litres each for larger commercial fires.

“We put a lot of thought into this truck and designed it for making sure that as the town grows, that this truck will be able to continue to serve a purpose here in the community,” said Bueckert. “It’s also a truck that was designed with our neighbours in mind too because our mutual aid partners have the same or similar truck size with the water tank for a larger incident…we can effectively work with them and vice versa.”

The new tanker replaces a 1993 model.