By Dee DePass
The Star Tribune

MINNEAPOLIS — Call it a fire drill for manufacturers.

Local companies scrambled in the past month to help finish seven new high-tech fire trucks in time for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul next week.

The city gets to keep four of the trucks, which were built in part with GOP money. The trucks will be moved Friday to a restricted area near the Xcel Energy Center, but the U.S. Secret Service won't let them leave the area for a week.

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