Bryan city council members without discussion during July’s regular meeting, approve purchasing two new fire engines.
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Background information given to the council says it will take between two and five years to build the engines.
BFD regularly uses five engines that have been 42,000 and 115,000 miles.
The council was told that the heavily used engines has resulted in mechanical issues that keeps them out of service for longer periods of time.
BFD has three reserve fire engines that have logged between 103,000 and 127,000 miles.
The price for each of the new engines are $1.5 million dollars.
After they are delivered, older units will be sold, auctioned, or donated to another department.