The Gwinnett County Board of Commissioners recently approved spending about $6 million on four new aerial ladder trucks for the fire department, reports ajc.com.
The purchase will be funded by the 2017 special purpose local option sales tax (SPLOST) program. The sole-source contract went to Sutphen, according to the report.
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The trucks have 95-foot ladders, officials say, and the county has 12 such trucks that operate every day.
The board also approved $1.8 million from various SPLOST programs to remount eight ambulance bodies on new chassis. It now has 33 ambulances that last year transported more than 44,000 patients to area hospitals, according to the report.
