Middletown Purchasing Fire Trucks Worth $3.72 Million

Middletown Township will be purchasing three new fire engines that are expected to serve the community for years to come.

The Middletown Township Board of Supervisors voted Monday to buy three fire engines for a price not to exceed $3.72 million. The trucks are being purchased through Glick Fire Equipment and will be made by Pierce Manufacturing.

Middletown Township Fire Chief Mark Antozzeski said one of the new trucks will go to the volunteer Langhorne-Middletown Fire Company, the second will go to the volunteer William Penn Fire Company, and the third will be handed over to the career Middletown Township Department of Fire and Emergency Services.

Antozzeski said the three trucks will be of a standard design that was agreed to by the career staff and the township’s four volunteer fire companies.

No timeline for delivery of the new trucks was announced.

The township will own the fire trucks and maintain them, even the ones provided to the volunteer fire companies.

Previously, the each fire company laid out of the specifications for their fire trucks.

The township’s paid fire crews have been renting a fire engine from the volunteer Penndel Fire Company since the career service began several years ago. In recent years, the township has realized the need for the paid crew to have their own fire engine to serve alongside a township-owned utility truck.

A township fire study in 2021 suggested Middletown Township officials and the fire companies work closer together on a number of issues, including equipment.

Each new truck is expected to serve for at least 15 years, Antozzeski said.

Antozzeski oversees the township’s paid fire crew and works to coordinate with the volunteer fire companies.

Supervisors Chairperson Anna Payne thanked the fire companies for their efforts to come up with the vehicle replacement plan.

Supervisor Dana Kane said she appreciated the fire companies and township chief for working together.

“This plan has been months in the making,” she said.

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