News of the collapse spread quickly through the small town. It took around 10 minutes for the building's roof to buckle, then collapse.

Fire Lt. Brock Lemmon says gear and all but one truck were removed from the building and there were no injuries.

It has caused some adjustments in how they cover the Seville/Guilford area. Lemmon continues, "For right now, our vehicles are a little spread out. We've had great help from the city and township and storing the vehicles in the local PD."

And honoring another decades-old custom, civic leaders and firefighting fans of all ages wiped the truck dry after it was hosed down at the station located in the 4500 block of Merlot Avenue in south Grapevine.

At the same ceremony, the department retired 10-year-old Quint 4, a 2007 Rosenbauer Quint.

On Aug. 11, the Liberal government announced a new 1,500-gallon tanker truck, funded 90 per cent by the province, is expected to be in service by the fall of 2017 — although Brinson hopes the truck will be ready in the next three to six months.

The truck will replace a not-so-beautiful machine.

The community has been making do for years with a 1983 Chevy with an untrustworthy transmission that broke down in January 2015, crippling the ability for the fire department to respond to emergencies.