my name is John Gabaldon I'm the village
Allison Asst fire chief it's a
Rosenbauer ladder truck it's a hundred
and one foot aerial platform five
hundred gallon tank with a two thousand
gallon per minute pump and it was paid
for by a general obligation bond that
was approved in 2016 by the village
primary use is for reach - to be able to
get two commercials businesses and also
residential homes we can we can utilize
this to safely extinguish fires that are
you know maybe in the center of a home
that we wouldn't been able to get in the
past it's they might be too unsafe for
us to maybe climb up on a roof or we're
unable to actually get water into that
seed of that fire because of reach you
know you a lot of times when you're
fighting fire from the ground you don't
really know where you're shooting that
fire so this way it gives us the aerial
perspective of it we could shoot down
inside of it on the tip of the ladder it
has cameras it has a regular camera and
a thermal imager camera that we can
actually see from the ground behind the
truck and actually from the turntable
where the aerial ladder moves around we
can see the the cameras from there and
actually see where we're spraying the
water and find those heat signatures as
were you doing it what it means to us is
that our community is very progressive
our our City Council and our mayor is
very progressive they want to make sure
they have they've really taken safety to
the fullest and they are they recognize
the need and they want to make sure our
community has what it needs to to have
to be safe here and actually function
within our community as a whole
comfortably knowing that this equipment
is available to them 24 hours a day I
appreciate that
all the support we've received from the
community you know without this we
couldn't this would not be possible and
you go into a build there you get these
spec sheets and and we joke about it but
you you go through like imagine an excel
sheet that has 100 pages and if you make
a change on page 40 you affect 30 other
pages before that you have to go back
and do it again so it it has everything
we need for today and for the future we
hope we when we went through and we
built this we weren't only thinking
about what we what
we need and now we're thinking about the
potential for the future