Click here to watch WSOC’s video
Three Charlotte (North Carolina) Firefighters were treated and released from the hospital after their fire truck hit a tree on the way to a medical emergency call.
The Charlotte Observer reports a backup truck will be used for Engine 38 and other firefighters are filling in for those injured.
Click here for more coverage from WBTV, here for WSOC’s story, and here for the report from the Charlotte Observer.
The American LaFrance C-75, which was custom built in 1927 for Town of Thomaston, Georgia, sits with a For Sale sign in Charlotte, North Carolina. Buck Bailes tells WCCB he’s owned the apparatus for 22 years and gets about 20 calls a day from all over the world.
“I love this fire truck. It’s surprising thing of how many women come by and look at it, and call up and want to talk about it, talk about their relatives who were with the fire department.”
He even received an offer from someone in Shanghai but hasn’t seen the money: “That’s the story of the little red fire truck looking for a home.”
Read the full story here.
It isn’t Macy’s but for fire buffs this may be better. The 2010 Belk Carrousel Parade in Downtown Charlotte, North Carolina, considered the largest parade in the Southeast, was held on Thanksgiving Day. The Charlotte Fire Department participated in a big way. Here’s the description from CharlotteFireDept‘s YouTube entry:
Among the vintage fire trucks scene in the video are a rare 1902 American Fire Engine Company, Metropolitan Horse Drawn Steamer, a 1928 American LaFrance pumper, a 1948 Mack pumper, a 1958 Bullet-nose Seagrave pumper, and a 1971 Seagrave pumper. All of these apparatus were purchased new and served on the front lines for the City of Charlotte. Special thanks to Paul Scoogins and Scoggin Farms for providing the two beautiful male percheron horses to pull ‘Old Sue’.
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