{"id":9277,"date":"2016-09-08T01:41:42","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T05:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=9277"},"modified":"2016-09-08T01:41:42","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T05:41:42","slug":"brick-to-acquire-new-ambulance-search-and-rescue-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/09\/brick-to-acquire-new-ambulance-search-and-rescue-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick to Acquire New Ambulance, Search and Rescue Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9278\" style=\"width: 746px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/caiman.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9278\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9278\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/caiman.jpg\" alt=\"A BAE Systems Caiman vehicle, similar to one Brick will be receiving for free. (Credit: BAE Systems)\" width=\"736\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/caiman.jpg 736w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/caiman-240x180.jpg 240w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/caiman-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/caiman-600x450.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-9278\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A BAE Systems Caiman vehicle, similar to one Brick will be receiving for free. (Credit: BAE Systems)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Brick will soon acquire two new emergency vehicles \u2013 including one which will come free of cost.<\/p>\n<p>The township council this week approved the purchase of a Ford F-450 ambulance from a governmental purchasing cooperative for $173,000. The new ambulance will replace an older vehicle that is no longer in operation, Council President Paul Mummolo said.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Brick will receive a search and rescue vehicle under a federal surplus program. The vehicle is a 2012 Caiman model 6\u00d76 military search and rescue vehicle produced by BAE Systems.<\/p>\n<p>The township will receive the vehicle for free under a federal military surplus program. The Caimans, used in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters, are being offered to local\u00a0governments for use as search and rescue vehicles \u2013 especially in areas subject to flooding. The vehicle, new, cost about\u00a0$412,000.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2016\/09\/brick-to-acquire-new-ambulance-search-and-rescue-vehicle\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brick will soon acquire two new emergency vehicles \u2013 including one which will come free of cost. The township council this week approved the purchase of a Ford F-450 ambulance from a governmental purchasing cooperative for $173,000. The new ambulance will replace an older vehicle that is no longer in operation, Council President Paul Mummolo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9278,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2],"tags":[2414,1651,2413,24,2412,2415],"class_list":["post-9277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-1033-program","tag-ambulance","tag-bae-systems","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-caiman","tag-military-surplus"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/caiman.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-2pD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}