Excerpts from the daily-chronicle.com:
The Sycamore Fire Department will use a $135,228 federal grant to buy a mobile fire training prop and replacements for decades-old fire fighting equipment.
The Department of Homeland Security’s Assistance to Firefighters Grant program is covering 95 percent of the estimated cost for the gear, while the city of Sycamore will pay the remaining cost of about $6,761.
The mobile training prop includes a 12-by-20-foot roofing platform mounted on a 23-foot trailer, forcible entry door props, and an overhead door-cutting station.
New equipment will include a breathing air compressor, fill station and cascade system to replace the current 20-year-old unit.
The department also will buy replacements for an attack hose that’s more than 20 years old and a supply hose that’s more than 14 years old.
