{"id":303433,"date":"2026-05-21T20:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303433\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T20:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T20:14:11","slug":"city-to-purchase-new-battalion-vehicle-for-round-rock-fire-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/303433\/","title":{"rendered":"City to purchase new battalion vehicle for Round Rock Fire Department"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Round Rock Fire Department will receive a new vehicle to replace one in the existing battalion fleet next year, city staff said in May.<\/p>\n<p>Two-minute impact<\/p>\n<p>City officials approved a <a href=\"https:\/\/roundrock.legistar.com\/LegislationDetail.aspx?ID=8004749&amp;GUID=8B0044EE-8612-40E5-A0E1-2562BB8D05EF&amp;Options=&amp;Search=\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchase order<\/a> in the amount of $217,389.90 for a new fire battalion truck in a May 15 meeting. This will be the third vehicle of its kind in the city&#8217;s fleet, replacing the existing Battalion 2 truck, city staff said.<\/p>\n<p>The details<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.roundrocktexas.gov\/city-departments\/general-services\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">General Services Department<\/a> Director Corey Amidon said the new truck will feature a front brush guard, side steps and a custom aluminum Stonewell box in the rear. This box stores supplies and equipment for fire department staff and has a service life of about 20 years and can be used on multiple vehicles, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Amidon said this vehicle will remain at the fire station full-time outside of specific training events and will not go home with the fire chief.<\/p>\n<p>Why now? <\/p>\n<p>By purchasing the vehicle now, Amidon said the city is getting ahead of long lead times in vehicle procurement and production of the Stonewell box.<\/p>\n<p>The vehicle will be shipped to a facility where it will be custom-fit with the box, he said, a process that can take up to a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Round Rock Fire Department will receive a new vehicle to replace one in the existing battalion fleet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303434,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,64800,109995,92581,109993,109994],"class_list":["post-303433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-round-rock-city-council","tag-round-rock-city-services","tag-round-rock-fire-department","tag-round-rock-fire-department-staff","tag-round-rock-fire-services"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303433\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}