An apparatus plan, which was approved in 2015, is being asked to be put in place by the Yakima Fire Fighters Association. | Unsplash
An apparatus plan, which was approved in 2015, is being asked to be put in place by the Yakima Fire Fighters Association. | Unsplash
An apparatus plan, which was approved in 2015, is being asked to be put in place by the Yakima Fire Fighters Association.
"In that plan each fire engine would have a 12-year lifetime service. However because of funding the plan has not moved forward," NBC Right Now reported.
A City of Yakima spokesperson said they haven't had to resources to replace equipment.
"The idea is if there is an inventory of the things we believe we'll need and if we have the money available we will go ahead and do that. But in the case of the apparatus like many other pieces of equipment in the city we simply haven't had the resources to replace them up to this point, but the plan remains to do that over time," the spokesperson told NBC Right Now.
The aging equipment has led to mechanical issues.
“We were dispatched to a call when we discovered it. We had to call out of service another closest unit responding to fill the call of service, we were dispatched to. And then another station had a reserve and brought it back to us. So we had to swap all our equipment over and we were back in service," Vice President of the Yakima Firefighters Association Ryan Croffut told NBC Right Now.
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