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St. Anthony Fire Department Memo To: Mark Casey – City Manager From: Mark Sitarz – Fire Chief cc: Date: 02/27/2017 Re: Engine Replacement Mr. Casey, Per your request I have put together an overview of why we need to replace our 1985 Ford LS9000 Engine. The fire engine is 32 years old with 70,300 miles and 11,525 hours. Typical life of a primary engine is approximately 20 years. After 16 years of service as our primary engine on all medicals and fires we moved it to our 2nd out engine in order to try to extend its life. During that time of being our primary engine we had to rebuild the transmission after 9 years and then the motor was rebuilt after 14. In 2001 we as a department\city chose to refurbish this vehicle to continue its service and maintain reliability. Rust removal, new paint, water tank refurbish and other needed repairs were performed to gain additional life from it. We were looking to replace it at 30 years but have held on to it for 2 additional. The refurbish successfully extended its life but discussions with both our city mechanic as well as our primary maintenance company confirmed that another refurbish is not a viable option due to the extent of the wear. I feel good that we were successful in getting 32 years out of it however we are getting to a point to where a catastrophic failure is certainly a possibility. Looking at what a replacement engine will provide us is comprehensive and beneficial. For starters, the firefighters will be encased with today’s safety features. In the cab they will be able to use seatbelts with shoulder straps versus just the waist straps. We will now have airbags, significantly better cab construction, visual site lines for the driver will be much improved, cameras which we added to all of our engines in the fleet and better visibility with reflective graphics for nighttime operations. Also we will be able to utilize LED emergency lighting which is