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Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Guam Fire Department responds to fire near UOG in Mangilao


The Guam Fire Department responded to a fire near the University of Guam Wednesday morning. At 8:06 a.m., Guam Fire Department units responded to a reported structure fire at the junction of Dormitory Lane and Campus Drive near the entrance to the University of Guam in Mangilao, GFD spokesperson Nick Garrido shared with local media. "Upon arrival, units were able to extinguish within minutes," said Garrido, who added units were still on scene conducting overhaul and cleaning at around 9:39 a.m.
The Guam Daily Post


Tuesday, April 30, 2024

Follow-up: Guam Fire Department commissions 2 new pumper trucks


VIDEO: Emergency response time to roughly one-third of the island’s population got just a little bit quicker with two brand new pumper trucks added to the Guam Fire Department’s fleet of emergency vehicles. The new trucks were welcomed at a commissioning ceremony on Friday at Adelup. One will be assigned to the Yona Fire Station while the other will operate out of the Dededo Fire Station. Acting Fire Chief Joey San Nicolas said that the trucks were funded by a Department of Interior’s Office of Insular Affairs grant of about $1 million. “What you see before you is years and years, hours and hours of hard work, going as back as far as 2019 ... followed by going through COVID-19, which extended the lead time for the manufacture of fire trucks all across the nation to as much as three years, which is what we have here,” he said. “The timing could not have been any better.”
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