Campbell gets grant to buy new firetruck

Staff report

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The city fire department has been awarded a large grant for a new firetruck.

The department is awarded $695,195 for a combination ladder-pumper truck.

The city must put in its $37,000 share, Fire Chief Nick Hrelec said. The city plans to obtain a loan for the city contribution.

Finance Director Sherman Miles said a state commission that oversees the city while it is in fiscal emergency would have to approve taking on the debt, which it did at its meeting last week.

The grant is coming from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters program.

It is the largest of nine grants awarded to fire departments throughout Northeast Ohio. In all, $1.6 million was awarded, said the office of U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio.

The city wrote for the grant last year, Hrelec said.

The new truck will take the place of a ladder truck that dates to 1971 and a pumper truck that dates to 1978.

Hrelec said the new truck will be built. It won’t be ready for delivery for at least eight months.