West Dubbo can sleep a little safer, with a brand new, top of the line fire engine joining the impressive array of machinery employed by Delroy Fire Station.
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The fire station's capabilities have been sharply boosted by the addition of a $450,000 vehicle that is the first of it's kind to be deployed to NSW.
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Alongside state of the art GSP navigation systems and a full array of emergency and crash response equipment, the truck's pump utilises state of the art Compressed Air Foam systems to make for a more efficient, fully equipped fire-fighting instrument.
Delroy Fire Station Captain Aaron Ferguson said he hopes for his crew to be fully trained and familiar with all the new features the engine employs within the next month.
"The compressed air foam system makes it a lot more water efficient, but it's also more efficient in general, it has a lot more fire fighting power contained within it," Captain Ferguson said.
The engine has been at Delroy station for a little under two weeks and has already been taken for a test drive, with Ferguson noting that it handled perfectly.
"It's a bit like a ten ton sports car," He laughed.
"Plus, a little more comfortable, it doesn't feel like you're sitting on a milk crate in the back anymore."
Given the drought inundated state of the Central West, Captain Ferguson said it was important for rural fire stations to have CAS equipped engines.
"This old one we have here also has a CAS system and because we've received this new one, that one will actually go to Brewarrina soon and that way we can better spread around the capabilities," Captain Ferguson said.
The keys to the expensive new set of wheels were handed over officially on Friday, by Services minister David Elliott and local member Dugald Saunders.
