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Published January 07, 2009 12:24 pm - Volunteer firefighters have been given the go ahead by city council members to purchase a ladder fire truck. Firefighters can get ladder truck By GINA KINSLOW Glasgow Daily Times CAVE CITY — CAVE CITY — Volunteer firefighters have been given the go ahead by city council members to purchase a ladder fire truck.
The truck, a 1991 International, will cost the fire department $50,000, which is about $9,000 less than the original asking price. “I think it’s a steal myself,” said chief Kenneth Moulder. Firefighters have been looking to purchase such a truck for the past four to five years. While some may think owning such a truck would have enabled firefighters to extinguish such blazes as the November Comfort Inn fire on Mammoth Cave Road quicker, Moulder said that’s not necessarily true. “We had two ladder trucks out there and it didn’t help anything,” he said. However, the fire department has been in situations where owning such a truck would have been beneficial. Moulder explained firefighters can use the truck to reach the upper areas of attics when extinguishing structure fires. With a ladder truck, he said, firefighters can push the hose’s nozzle through the window to fight a fire without having to get so close to the blaze. “It means a whole lot that our people are safe and sound,” he said. Moulder has yet to see the truck himself, but several firefighters drove to Woodlawn, which is near Covington in northern Kentucky, to see the truck and test it. “From what they are telling me, this truck is not an outstanding truck, but it’s definitely a truck that would work in our department,” he said. The same type of truck would have cost the fire department close to $75,000 last year. “Somebody was going to buy this truck. Times are hard right now. We’re just fortunate to be able to use a (local bank) here in town to be able to buy the truck,” Moulder said. 
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