Kingston Midstream donates $50,000 to Kipling Fire Department for new truck
April 13, 2026, 11:54 am
Nicole Taylor Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Kingston Midstream made a $50,000 donation last week to the Kipling Fire Department for a new rescue truck.
The fire department estimates a new truck will cost between $700,000 and $800,000 and is replacing a rescue truck that is 25 years old.
“The new rescue truck will help the local first responders reach people faster and operate more safely, strengthening emergency response for residents, businesses and travelers, especially with increasing highway traffic and oil field activity,” says Dena Bachorcik with Kinston Midstream.
“Through the Richardson Foundation, we provide funding to communities with their capital projects. So basically, anything that will support the community that is needed. And the fire departments are something that affects everybody. They need the proper equipment to do their jobs properly, to protect everybody.”
Kinston Midstream made the donation through the Richardson Foundation.
“It’s their foundation that they provide funding through for capital projects,” says Bachorcik.
“We will be upgrading our rescue truck to a newer model because this one is over 25 years old,” says Brody Zepick with the Kipling Fire Department. “It goes to every single call so it needs to be newer, for many reasons. This truck really needs to be reliable because it goes to every single call that we respond to.”
Zepick says donations like the one from Kingston Midstream help tremendously.
“It’s huge,” he says. “We have to pay for 25 per cent of the cost of the truck so that helps us a lot. “It means this truck is going to happen when you get donations like that.”
Zepick says the fire department has started fundraising in the last year and once a new truck is ordered, it takes about two years for the truck to arrive.
He says current fundraising for the truck sits at about $75,000
“We’re hoping to get the ordering process started sooner rather than later so that we can have it in a two year time frame, roughly,” he says.
