Butner Public Safety to Display Two New Fire Engines 

 

Butner Public Safety will host an open house on Monday, June 20, 2005, from 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. to showcase two new fire trucks for the Butner community in Granville County.  The event will be held at the Butner Public Safety building at 611 Central Avenue in Butner.

The new vehicles are a pumper-tanker truck and a ladder truck.  The pumper-tanker truck was purchased with $227,000 from the 2004 U.S. Assistance to Firefighters Grant Program and a 10-percent state match. The ladder truck was purchased with $482,295 appropriated by the N.C. General Assembly in 2004. 

A ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m.  Among those making remarks will be U.S. Rep. Brad Miller, N.C. Rep. James Crawford, CCPS Secretary Bryan Beatty, and Butner Public Safety Chief Michael Dupree.

Butner Public Safety is a Division of the N.C. Department of Crime Control & Public Safety. The Division has 43 sworn officers who serve as both police officers and firemen for the 36 square-mile community of Butner, which is home to about 6,000 residents, 25 state and federal institutions and more than 150 private businesses both large and small.  Butner is the only state-run community in North Carolina.

You are encouraged to cover this exciting news for the Butner community.  If you have any questions, please call our office at 919-733-5027 or Butner Public Safety at 919-575-6561.