Utica Fire Department Unveils Two New Vehicles

The Utica Fire Department is showing off two new vehicles.

The newest apparatus is Fire Engine number 3, which will be stationed in East Utica.

Mayor Robert Palmieri says $5000,000 in federal funding through the Department of Homeland Security's Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and $158,000 from the City helped replace a 30-year old truck..

The UFD has also replaced an old emergency response vehicle with a new one, with the help of $250,000 in state funding secured by then-Assemblyman Anthony Brindisi.

The vehicle it replaced was more than 13 years old.