FIREFIGHTERS can boast a smart new delivery vehicle.

A new 4x4 vehicle will be used by teams travelling the county to promote the fire brigade's Get Yorkshire Covered smoke alarm campaign.

However, it will also be available to other units combating the threat of arson and to support the front line crews at large emergencies, such as flooding which swept the region in 2000.

Sponsorship by City of York Housing, the city's Monks Cross Shopping Centre, Sanderson Motorhouse, at nearby Clifton Moor, the Safer York Partnership, Moss Tyres, Age Concern and the York Neighbourhood Watch network has helped cover the cost of a Vauxhall Frontera.