Jamestown  (CSi)  The Jamestown Fire Department Ladder Truck #1 was delivered to the City of Jamestown Fire Station.

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The new ladder truck is a 2019 Rosenbauer Cobra 101-foot Aerial Platform Truck. Chief Reuther named the vehicle Ladder No. 1 because it is the first ladder truck owned by the City. Look for the decal on the truck.  He points out that firefighters will need training on the vehicle’s operations, two days worth, with the manufacture’s representatives, later this month, before fully utilizing it.  Company officials were on hand in Jamestown Tuesday, to familiarize the city fire fighters with the truck’s operations.

The community has been without a ladder truck since July of 2019 when the 1984 Grumman Aerial Cat (ladder truck) required repairs.

Jamestown Mayor, Dwaine Heinrich, and City Fire Chief Jim Reuther both said, that the community needs to remember the many businesses and individuals that donated to purchase the truck.  Funding efforts continue.  Two-thirds the cost of the truck, is being raised locally with the state agreeing  to fund a third of the cost, based on the city’s two-thirds, being raised.

Chief Reuther has said, while the ladder truck provides fire fighting protection battling high-rise structure fires, the height also aids in aerial watering of fires at smaller buildings, in getting above the rooftops.

The Jamestown Fire Department provides fire-fighting, fire prevention, and related services, while working to protect life, property and public safety, including rescue operations at all hours of the day, to everyone within the city, and in cooperation with other agencies throughout the surrounding area.

On November 27, 2019, the State of North Dakota Department of Human Services, announced it was terminating its agreement with the city for the use of a state-owned ladder truck it had provided for over 90 years, although a ladder truck is required to provide fire and rescue operations for structures with two or more stories as well as large building complexes and other inaccessible areas, a number of which are located on state property in Jamestown.

The City began planning to purchase the $1,300,000 a new ladder truck. The community has been very generous in the support of the first ladder truck owned by the City of Jamestown.
Chief Reuther and the Fire Department, the Mayor and City Council, and everyone at the City would like to celebrate the arrival of the truck with everyone in 2021 when it is safer to do so.