Twin Lakes Fire & Rescue to buy used ambulance, new engine and heart monitors

Twin Lakes Fire and Rescue was given approval by the Twin Lakes Village Board Monday to purchase four pieces of equipment — a used ambulance, a new fire engine and two heart monitors.

The ambulance will be used as a third unit for the rescue squad. The squad recently acquired more coverage territory in the wake of Silver Lake Rescue Squad ceasing emergency medical services. Twin Lakes Rescue now covers all of Randall and Wheatland along with its core area of Twin Lakes. In the past, Twin Lakes Rescue only covered parts of Randall and Wheatland. Randall and Wheatland are now paying more for EMS service from Twin Lakes.

The department is planning to purchase a 2009 Braun ambulance, said Fire Chief Stan Clause Jr. The village will lend Twin Lakes Rescue the purchase price as a no interest loan and the rescue squad will pay back the village at a rate of  $10,000 a year for three years.

The rescue squad is currently leasing one of the two Silver Lake Rescue ambulances. That lease is set to last six months.

The department decided to not purchase the Silver Lake Rescue ambulance due to uncertainty about that organization’s wind down process, Clause said.

The Village Board also approved the fire department going forward with the purchase of an fire engine to replace an engine purchased in 1993. The cost of that new piece of equipment is expected to be $597,833. Clause said typical age for replacement of an engine is about 20 years.

The department is planning to purchase a Pierce engine from Reliant Fire Apparatus of Slinger.

Village administrator Jennifer Frederick will return to the board with financing options at a future meeting. The new engine likely would be purchased via a debt issuance by the village, Frederick said, with the village solely responsible for the debt payments.

A final payment for a quint-ladder truck purchased in 2010 will be made in 2019, Frederick said.

The Village Board on Monday also approved purchasing two heart monitors that will replace the monitors in rescue’s two current ambulances, Frederick said. Clause said at an earlier meeting that the current monitors are “well over 15 years old” and are out of date.

In Twin Lakes, the village owns all fire equipment and the rescue squad owns its equipment, Frederick said.

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