The new engine cost more than $550,000 with funding coming from multiple sources.

The driver of the vehicle, Morris Township firefighter Michael Zucker, said he was responding to an emergency call when he was cut off by another vehicle, police said.

Zucker said he was forced to take “evasive action” to avoid a collision  and left the roadway as a result, police said.

Zucker and his passenger, firefighter Brandon McCloskey, were transported to Morristown Medical Center complaining of minor pain, police said.

The fire engine sustained significant damage as a result of the crash, police said.

Since the fire truck was decommissioned by the city in the 1950s, the truck has had several owners in Kentucky and surrounding states. For year’s stories circulated back to Adairville that the fire truck was still around. Given that it was common for these older vehicles to be scrapped, these sightings were significant. And as we’ll learn this truck was not only meant to survive but eventually find its way back to the town it once protected. One Adairville Firefighter who always wanted to find the old fire truck and bring it back home was Adairville Rural Fire Chief, Teddy Smith.