MCFR Fire Fleet

A Driving Force

Marion County Fire Rescue's Emergency Vehicle Technicians (EVTs) guarantee the health and safety of the county's citizens by ensuring the reliability of the department's 200-plus fire engines, rescue trucks, tankers, grass trucks, ambulances and command vehicles.

These professionals do more than preventive maintenance. They also tackle the toughest of engineering challenges, converting military vehicles into grass trucks and refurbishing tankers.

They achieve top-caliber maintenance and performance of emergency vehicles and save citizens hundreds of thousands of dollars every year by performing repairs that other departments outsource to costly third-party technicians.

This also enables technicians to identify and correct potential problems before those problems become very expensive to fix.

EVTs take at least 480 hours of classes to become certified to work on emergency vehicles.

During the 2007-2008 Fiscal Year, MCFR's EVTs accomplished the following:

	Worked 5,833 man hours
	Processed 3,718 work orders
	Purchased three new E-ONE "Custom Typhoon" fire engines
	Purchased three new brush trucks

	MCFR's refurbishing program started in 1997 as a way to accommodate explosive growth in Marion County without increasing capital expenditures. It is an innovative program that not only increases MCFR's fire fleet but also enables technicians to build units that meet the specific needs of firefighters.
	Fire officials may spend $120,000 to buy a new tanker truck, but MCFR's EVTs can build a similar truck with the same performance for $20,000 to $40,000.
	Some projects may take as little as three weeks to complete; others may take three to six months depending upon available resources.
	MCFR's fire shop is modeled throughout the state and nation.