Friday evening you may have thought that there was a big fire here in town, however, you would have been incorrect.  All the sirens you heard were to announce and welcome the newest addition to the Kane Volunteer Fire Department's fleet of fire trucks.

Staging at the top of Cemetery Hill, the escort began with a Kane Police Department car followed by Fire Chief Art Brechtel, Ladder 59, a 1977 Maxum, oldest truck and the one to be replaced, Engine 57, Rescue 51, Engine 56, Utility 54, Engine 58, and the newest addition and what all the sirens and lights were for, Tower 5, a 2008 Sutphen with a 95 foot ladder and holding 500 gallons of water with a 2000 gallon per minute pump rate.  

Tower 5 should be in service in the near future. The fire department will be training on it over the next few weeks. No doubt if you were out and about this last weekend you saw it being driven through the streets of Kane.

However, it will take a little getting use to seeing a red and black fire truck in Kane.

Pictured is the new truck; the bottom right picture, left to right is Art Brechtel, Fire Chief, Matt Bressler, 1st Assistant Fire Chief and Truck Committee Chairman, Pat Nowak and Tim Lehman preparing to tryout the new ladder truck.