The Citizen, 2013-03-28, Page 11THE CITIZEN, THURSDAY, MARCH 28, 2013. PAGE 11. After Huron East Council’s
decision to nix a $300,000 truck for
the Seaforth station of the Huron
East Fire Department from the 2013
budget, the issue was back up for
debate at council’s March 19
meeting and the discussion was not
without fireworks.
Councillor Bill Siemon took
particular offense to many of the
reasons provided by Huron East Fire
Chief Marty Bedard as to why a
$300,000 truck was needed in
Seaforth when council just
purchased a new truck for the
Brussels station of the Huron East
Fire Department for $170,000.
Many of Bedard’s reasons
surrounded the safety of the
firefighters riding in the truck, which
to Siemon, meant that Brussels
firefighters are riding around in anunsafe truck.Bedard said that his presentationhad almost been made irrelevant as
he sat through budget deliberations
just minutes before in which council
decided not to include the truck in
the 2013 budget. Bedard’s report
recommended the inclusion of the
truck in the budget, and if not the
complete amount, then that a
significant contribution be made to
reserves in preparation for the
truck’s purchase in 2014.
While explaining the cost, Bedard
said that he and Seaforth Chief Tom
Phillips had spoken with dealers and
it was suggested that $300,000 be
set aside for what the department
was looking for.
Mayor Bernie MacLellan said that
council’s justification for seeking
further information on the truck’s
price was that it was nearly double
what was paid for a truck inBrussels.He said that if there was ajustification for the extra cost, he
would be more than happy to hear it
so he could understand, but without
hearing that, council was
uncomfortable going ahead with the
recommendation.
Siemon said that since Brussels
firefighters provide first medical
response and Seaforth doesn’t, if
anything, Brussels provides a more
extensive service than Seaforth, but
with far less.
“Brussels is a first responder,
Seaforth is not a first responder,”
Siemon said. “I think this comes
down to the difference between men
and boys and the size of their toys.”
Bedard said that there isn’t much
equipment associated with first
medical response, so that wouldn’t
make much of a difference, but that
Seaforth firefighters are indeed nottrained in first response.MacLellan said that councilneeded to decide if each of its three
fire departments had different needs
or if the services should be equal
from station to station.
Phillips, who was at the meeting,
said that both the $170,000 Brussels
truck and the proposed $300,000
Seaforth truck carry the same
equipment, but that the Seaforth
truck will have to carry more wood
for cribbing, as the Seaforth station
has to operate in a greater number of
fields than the Brussels station does.
He said that the new truck will last
between 20 and 30 years, which is
what the Seaforth firefighters
deserve.
He said that the department wants
a Smart Cab in its truck, which has
rollover protection to save firefighter
lives in the event of a rollover,
something that the Brussels truckdoes not have.“These guys deserve that type ofprotection,” Phillips said. “These
guys don’t get paid much.”
Siemon, however, felt that it didn’t
make much sense for the Seaforth
department to need safety measures
that Brussels didn’t feel it had to
take. All of the municipality’s
firefighters should be protected, he
said, so if a feature needs to be on a
Seaforth truck, he said, it makes
sense that it should be on the
Brussels truck too.
“Does the Brussels truck
have rollover protection?” he
asked. “Then it’s an unsafe truck”
he said after being told that it
doesn’t.
MacLellan asked Bedard to
prepare a report and that council
now has a year to weigh the options
and decide on a truck.
Councillor questions safety of Brussels fire truckBy Shawn LoughlinThe Citizen
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