User blog:Timebomb192potato/WBOR NewsCenter: Leominster fire equipment headed to New Caledonia

WBOR-TV News Report - August 14, 2018


 * KARLA NARJINARI (female voice; American accent): In some countries, there are not enough fire trucks to ensure public safety.
 * RICK TREMAIN (male voice; New Zealand accent): But three decommissioned fire trucks that served an industrial fire department for several years have a new assignment in the South Pacific. Our Steve S. Green has the story, taking us to the Latikuu factory in Leominster, where a long journey to New Caledonia is set for three pieces of fire equipment.
 * STEVE S. GREEN (male voice; American accent): This 1999 Pierce fire truck has served the Latikuu Leominster Plant Fire Department for a decade. But now, it's got a new assignment. It's on it's way to New Caledonia, Thio, New Caledonia to be exact.
 * HISAKO NORMAN (female voice; El Kadsreian accent): We need to find a way to quickly upgrade the fire-fighting equipment of nations that don't have the ability.
 * STEVE S. GREEN (male voice; American accent): After seeing outdated equipment during a trip to New Caledonia in 2016, Latikuu Edacra Entertainment North America managing officer Johnson Morris Jr. asked the head office about an idea - to start a program donating old equipment from their plants' fire departments to third-world and developing localities.
 * JOHNSON MORRIS JR. (male voice; Mid-Atlantic accent): What we've been looking to do is to improve the infrastructure of fire departments in countries that need them most.
 * STEVE S. GREEN (male voice; American accent): The most recent donation by this program is of the 1999 Pierce fire truck, which was about to be scrapped, to Thio. It, a 1994 Ford ambulance and a 1996 GMC Yukon battalion chief vehicle left the plant for the final time yesterday, so the three can be shipped via container ship to their new home.