Celebrations 

Walkersville Pushes-In New Quint-11

Friday evening, the Walkersville Community gathered to support the Walkersville Volunteer Fire Company and celebrate the purchase of the new Quint-11 fire truck with a Pushing-In Ceremony. Walkersville Volunteer Fire Company Chief Matt Staley spoke some about the $1,114,000 truck which weighs in at about 82,000 lbs. The truck is a Pierce Velocity 100′ Aerial Platform, and was purchased from Atlantic Emergency Solutions. It features a 266″ wheelbase, a 500 horse-power Detroit DD13 engine, and Oshkosh TAK-4 Independent Front Suspension. To protect the six firefighters in the cab of the truck,…

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Community 

Emergency Equipment On Display

The Walkersville Volunteer Fire Company hosted Atlantic Emergency Solutions and other vendors on Saturday.  The event featured a lot of new equipment from Atlantic Emergency Solutions including fire trucks and ambulances.  Other vendors displayed helmets, boots, hoses, cameras, and nozzles for hoses. One vendor demonstrated their battery powered jaws of life and traditionally powered jaws of life. They used their equipment to cut a small car apart.  The extrication demonstration drew quite a crowd.  “Its amazing how quiet the battery powered ones are,” stated one teenager in the crowd.  The company representative claimed…

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