Fire & Rescue
Cost savings, surplus equipment sales add up to new truck for La Crosse Fire Department
It’s sort of like the equivalent of digging around under the couch cushions to find a couple bucks for a cheeseburger.
Except the couch cushion change, in this case, works out to be nearly $400,000, and the cheeseburger is actually a fire truck.
The city of La Crosse is looking at replacing a 33-year-old water tender truck that was bought in 1985.
It’s moved up on the priority list after the city saved money on some other projects — $97,000 left from money budgeted for decontamination rooms at fire stations and $101,000 in savings from a fire engine purchase.
A little bit here and there starts to add up. In this case, adding up to $380,000, with which the city now aims to use to buy a new fire truck.
The city council votes on the plan next month.