The very first fire truck for one Marshall County Volunteer Fire Department is going back to its previous owner in Maryland after a fifteen-year search. The Maryland Volunteer Fire Department wants the truck back for sentimental reasons as it was their first truck also back in 1973.
The department purchased it that year and sold it in 1980.
But what's so amazing is how they found it after all these years.
For more than 35 years Asbury has had this 1962 model vintage fire truck and kept it in service until just four years ago but now it's heading back home to Maryland at the Huntingtown Volunteer Fire Department.
Officials there say all they knew was the truck was ultimately sold to someone who brought it to Alabama.
But lately they saw a video of the truck in a Christmas parade on the Internet on a national fire department website.
They inquired if that was the truck and turns out it was.
The Maryland Fire Department is looking to spend more than $50,000 to restore it to brand new condition.
"It will be used for parades, firemen's conventions, and so forth like that. We're hoping to have it done by April of 2017. We have a southern Maryland's Firemen's Convention that will be held at our station. We host it this year so we're hoping to have it done by then," said Clinton Cox Jr., Huntingtown Maryland volunteer firefighter.