When the Elba (AL) Fire Department responded to a structure fire over the weekend that destroyed a home, officials say someone broke into the department’s station and stole a utility vehicle before leading officers on a 10-minute pursuit which ended with the stolen apparatus crashed into a utility pole, reports dothaneagle.com.

Jakori Warren, 25, of Elba, was arrested on scene by Elba Police and transported to the Coffee County Jail after being cleared by medical personnel. His charges include third-degree burglary, first-degree theft of property, attempt to elude, and resisting arrest.

It all started at approximately 10:16 p.m. Saturday, when Elba firefighters were dispatched to a reported structure fire on Martin Luther King Drive; the New Brockton Volunteer Fire Department was immediately called in for mutual aid.

No firefighters or civilians were injured, but multiple pets were unable to be rescued.

Officials say the damaged apparatus will not affect the department’s response time, as a contingency plan has been put into place.

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The town of Montverde, Florida, donated a 2000 Pierce Contender 1250 GPM fire engine to the Hawkins County Volunteer Fireman’s Association, reports Kingsport Times News.

The HCVFA then made the decision to place the fire truck with the Goshen Valley Volunteer Fire Department. The GVVFD paid for delivery costs and used the gift to replace a 45-year-old fire truck.

The truck also included some tools, appliances, supply hose, and and air packs minus the air bottles. The truck is currently being serviced and tested.

The department has been in service since 1992 and operates two engines and two tankers from two fire stations.

According to a report from Reading Eagle, retired Reading, Pennsylvania, firefighter Bill Stoudt Sr. spotted a grey pickup truck turning onto South Fifth and Laurel Streets, pulling a trailer carrying a familiar friend—a 1931 Buffalo 1,000-gallon-per-minute pumper engine Stoudt Jr. drove as a newly hired firefighter in 1963 until it was replaced by the city in 1966.

The owner of the engine, Peter West of Virginia, recently sold it to the Reading Area Firefighters Museum.

Stoudt walked around the vintage truck, admiring the piece he spent three years of his career. He then climbed aboard after it was started up, instructing West where to drive it next. West then pulled the engine in front of the Liberty Fire Station and prepared to back it into its original bay. Stoudt continued to instruct West on the do’s and don’ts of driving the Buffalo.

The museum discovered that the engine would be put up for sale and knew immediately it had to get it. The museum will not divulge who paid for it and what it cost. However, museum Bill Rehr said that an anonymous donor bought the truck and donated it to the museum, noting that the donor said he “wanted it to come home.”

The city of Reading bought the engine for the Liberty Fire Company (LFC) in 1931. It was retired in 1966 and later served at the Reading Regional Airport. It then went into service in Robesonia. A private citizen bought it, and it was eventually sold to West, a fire engine collector. West then conducted an off-the-frame restoration, making the fire engine look as if it just rolled off the factory floor.

Rehr started working for the LFC in 1959 and said he remembers seeing the Buffalo engine at fires. He said the museum will keep the Buffalo as West delivered it.

The engine will be on display at the Reading Area Firefighters Museum, located at 501 S. Fifth Street.