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Firefighting vehicles to arrive late 2007

By Bernadette H. Carreon
Horizon news staff

The three firefighting vehicles that will be housed by the Aircraft and Rescue Firefighting building will be arriving late this year.
Capital Improvement Project Manager Ric Mangham said that the building is expected to be ready before the ARFF building is completed.
The ARFF building cost $2 million and an amount of $1.5 million is the cost of the three vehicles.
The construction of the ARFF was made possible through a grant from the Federal Aviation Authority.
Two new additional loading bridges will also be constructed at the airport this year to make up the whole package of the airport improvement.
Mangham said there is money set for one of the loading bridge and another loading bridge will be constructed if there is enough funding. In total the airport will have three loading bridges.
The airport improvement cost at least $13 million.
Phase II involves the full repair of the runway, the project is financed by a grant from Federal Aviation Administration.
Phase I of the project has been completed and the works involve spray scale of the runway which fixed the loose aggregates.