Murray loans Medina FD a fire truck while 2 are out of service

Photo courtesy of Medina Fire Department: Medina is using a fire engine from the Murray Joint Fire District.

MEDINA – With two of its fire trucks out of service, the Medina Fire Department is borrowing a fire engine from the Murray Joint Fire District.

Medina’s ladder truck has been out of service since June and won’t be returning to operation. A new ladder truck is expected to be delivered in December.

Due to emergency repairs, a Medina fire engine is out of service until next week. Medina fire officials reached out to Murray about using a fire engine until Medina 11 is back in service. Murray Fire Chief Rick Cary and the Murray Joint Fire District agreed. The Murray truck will supplement fire responses with Medina’s other fire engine – Medina Engine 10.

“If you see a Murray Joint Fire District engine responding in the Village of Medina, rest assured, it is supposed to be there,” the Medina FD posted on its Facebook page. “Thank you Murray Joint Fire District.”

Cary said fire departments will sometimes share a truck while one is out of service. Murray borrowed Clarendon’s ladder truck, for example, for about a week recently while Murray’s was getting tested.

Murray won’t be paid for loaning out its fire engine from 2007. Cary said it is a truck in reserve for Murray.

“They’re an extremely busy department,” Cary said about Medina. “It’s the right thing to do.”