Cool shelf ideas from my local Fire Department

[Mark Saiger]

Was cleaning our local fire department the other day.

They are pretty unique and have a mobile air unit where they can fill air tanks for the firemen and also dive time on location (mobile)

Trailer designed so if filling tanks in the pressure chamber unit, if a tank were to explode while filling, it would blow out the bottom of the trailer.

This trailer is on call around the State and proud to say our little town had it made

But, love the racks a friend of mine designed and welded to hold the tanks...;

Love the drop down gates he came up with....

Would be cool I think for some applications in the van(s)

 

[Mikey P]

Amazing what money can do..

 

[ronbeatty]

True craftsmanship

 

[dgardner]

Tubular, dude....

 

[Willy P]

Tubular, dude....

 

[Lee Stockwell]

Long cold winter projects.

 

[Desk Jockey]

Pretty fancy. I had some fold down racks custom made for a box truck we use for packing out fires. It can all be folded down or you can use a section and fold one. I like it but it was 4k to have done in aluminum.

Hurt when i paid for it but its sure been sweet when we use it.

 

[KevinL]

Amazing what money can do..

Yes, unlimited tax dollars. We can't afford it but government agencies spend like it grows on trees.

 

[Mark Saiger]

They actually got a local grant that one of our foundations helped with the initial funding to start the project, and then some other entities kicked in as well to make it happen. Not much State money that I recall, and a lot of volunteer hours put in to create too.

My Band program was one of the first to start investing monies into one of the local Community foundations...and it has gone fantastic. My former band program is set for life because I took a chance to be the first to invest monies into it. They never have to fundraise for band uniforms again, and before I left, I was able to get some policy in place that also allowed them to pull some monies out of the fund for musical instruments if needed. I set into place that the fund is never to go below $100,000 and typically only get used in a 5-10 year cycle....

I came up with a plan that my non profit band boosters purchase the uniforms (and or instruments), and then lease them back to the school district for 5-10 year lease (affordable for the school this way too) and then those monies are reinvested each year back into the fund....and then we basically only spend off the interest earned 5-10 years later....pretty unique, and some other schools and communities now doing too.

We are very fortunate that our local YMCA, and our Local performing arts center also received sizeable grants from same places, and also was fundraised supported by other local people.

Small town, but with a "Go Get Em" attitude.

Very unique little town of just under 11,000 people (another 8000 locals on the lakes, and 44,000 total people in the county).

Some of our Foundations and grant entities in town and the projects funded.

The one that really started it all. Original creator of our local paper mill started a foundation http://blandinfoundation.org/

This is the first one that started it all for the band http://www.gracf.org/

Or performing Arts center going under 12 million dollar remodel http://www.reifcenter.org/

Our local YMCA just finished major expansion and remodel

https://www.facebook.com/itascaymca

http://ymcaitasca.org/

https://givemn.org/organization/Itasca-County-Family-Ymca

And there is so much more....I am sure I am forgetting a bunch right now....but this community is pretty incredible that I fell into when I was 21 years of age....