STERLING – The Sterling Fire Department is asking the city to consider buying a new $2 million fire truck.
The recommendation to purchase a customized Rosenbauer King Cobra fire truck with a 101-foot articulating aerial ladder was made Monday during the department’s presentation to the Sterling City Council. Sterling Deputy Fire Chief David Northcutt said the new truck is needed to replace Truck/Tower 4, the department’s only truck with an aerial ladder.
The city granted the department permission to start planning specifications for the new fire truck shortly after interim Fire Chief Forrest Reeder presented a report last October on the “severe operational” issues plaguing the department’s vehicles and apparatus.
