VIDEO: The Vincennes Fire Department has received a new set of wheels, or rather a restored set of wheels, as the department temporarily has a fully restored 1926 fire truck that the department used to own at their headquarters for people to see.
For one member of the fire department, Larry Howerton, a retired firefighter and the current chaplain for the department, seeing this restored truck means more as he used to see this same truck when he was on the department back in the 1960s.
“I slept in the same building with it for a few years and have operated it before,” Howerton said. “Not on a working fire, only to test the pump or test the hose in that capacity.”
Howerton was blown away when he saw the same truck he saw every day restored to its former glory.
“It’s a beautiful piece of equipment,” Howerton said. “It looks a whole lot different than it had when it left here many years ago.”
The wheels were set in motion on this project last year when Jeff Latta, training division chief for the Vincennes Fire Department, did some research on the history of the department and found this 100-year-old truck sitting in California.
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