Hey J.D.:

Just wanted to straighten out something with this statement.

"Originally, we thought it would make Bensalem proud to have a fire boat in this area." -- Will Kane, president of the Union Fire Co., discussing the controversy surrounding a $1-million vessel obtained by the volunteer fire company, a boat that has a holding cell, a sharpshooter platform, an infrared camera, and a $40,000 gizmo that can find IEDs on the river bottom.

Just so you know, the Marine unit did NOT have a holding cell or a sharpshooter platform. The $40,000.00 gizmo was a sonar unit for finding submerged persons, vehicle and evidence. The grant Union Fire Co. obtained for this boat, was investigated by SEVERAL Federal and State agencies, and NOTHING was found wrong with it. Union fire Company did NOTHING wrong, and the only "controversy" involved in this, is that fact that Haman couldn't get his mitts on that $750,000 grant, so he LIED about Union and the boat. This boat was NOT for Homeland Security, but a RESCUE BOAT.