Mayor: Roswell must order fire pumper replacements now — lead times approach three years

Mayor Mary Robicheaux said the city has five fire pumpers with an average age around 15 years and at least one approaching 20–25 years old, and she warned that replacement apparatus can take nearly three years from order to delivery. "The other problem with that, it takes almost 3 years once you order this fire pumper to even get the vehicle in," she said, adding that waiting would create longer gaps in service.

Robicheaux said the city's fleet includes roughly 400 vehicles overall and that deferred replacement has increased repair demands on fleet maintenance. She tied apparatus replacement to the proposed capital package and said some purchases cannot be postponed without increasing safety and operational risk.