The Guthrie Center City Council met with members of their city fire department last night for a special meeting, with the only agenda item being a plan to purchase a new fire truck for the city. Every 25 years, the city is obligated to purchase a primary tanker truck for their city fire department, the truck this time around is estimated to cost upwards of $270,000. While that deadline is approaching within the next couple of years, the fire department, both city and rural combined recently received a $400,000 inheritance from an elderly resident who passed away, and members of the city council are wondering if it’s fair for the fire department to use some of that money to ease the burden of city taxpayers in financing the new truck. The fire department disagrees, and wants to use their inheritance money to get more advanced fire fighting equipment, in addition to a pumper truck, which would cost approximately $230,000. No concrete solution was reached, but the Fire Department is going to look into a bundle deal with buying the tanker and pumper at once, and an agreement may be able to be reached where the city pays for a third of the two trucks, the rural fire department pays for a third of the two trucks, and the city fire department pays for the last third.