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          TODAY WE PUT TWO NEW FIRE APPARATUSES IN PLACE FOR, UH, REPLACING SOME OF ALL OF OUR EQUIPMENT. 
          WE STARTED A TRADITION AND THE FIRE SERVICE WAS DONE MANY, MANY YEARS AGO AND, UH, I HAVEN'T NOTICED IT BEING DONE IN THIS DEPARTMENT. 
          SO I WANTED TO BRING SOMETHING NEW TO THE DEPARTMENT FOR THESE YOUNG FIREFIGHTERS COMING ABOARD AND MAYBE THEY'LL CARRY THE TRADITION FORWARD OF PUTTING THE TRUCKS BACK IN SERVICE WITH THE, THE PUSH OF THE TRUCKS. 
          AND TODAY WE HAD BOTH CREWS COME FROM, UH, STATION 11 AND STATION 13 TO TAKE PART IN PUSHING INTO THE TRUCKS AND PUTTING THEM IN SERVICE TODAY, TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO, THIS PROCESS STARTED DEVELOPING NEW FIRE TRUCKS. 
          THESE ARE FIRE PUMPERS. 
          THEY CARRY 500 GALLONS OF WATER, OR THEY HAVE A PUMP ON THE FIRE TRUCK CARRIES ALL OUR AIR PACKS, ALL OUR EXTRICATION EQUIPMENT TO, TO CUT PEOPLE OUT OF CARS. 
          THIS IS MAIN PIECE OF FIRE EQUIPMENT THAT RESPONDS TO EVERY CALL WITHIN THEIR FIRE DISTRICT AREA. 
          THESE TRUCKS ROUGHLY RIGHT NOW ARE RUNNING $850,000 A PIECE. 
          PART LOUISIANA PROPERTY INSURANCE ASSOCIATION, WHICH IS A FIRE RATING THAT GOES TO HOMEOWNERS FIRE INSURANCE RATES, IS TO KEEP A FIRE SERVICE AT TOP-NOTCH EQUIPMENT. 
          WE'RE A CLASS ONE FIRE DEPARTMENT VERY BEST THAT YOU CAN BE IN THE STATE OF LOUISIANA AND IS DUE TO THE RESIDENT SUPPORT OF OUR FIRE MILLAGE THAT ALLOWS US TO BUY EQUIPMENT LIKE THIS AND MAINTAIN OUR FIRE APPARATUS. 
          I JUST WANT TO THANK THE RESIDENTS OF JEFFERSON PARISH AND OUR FIRE DISTRICT FOR SUPPORTING US ALL THESE YEARS. 
          AND THEIR CONTINUED SUPPORT IS GONNA GIVE 'EM THE VERY BEST FIRE SERVICE THEY CAN, THEY CAN HAVE.
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