A Depression-era fire truck got a piggy-back ride on a flatbed trailer and rolled through downtown Hopkinsville with cellphone cameras clicking as a small caravan brought the American LaFrance firetruck back to its first home on East Ninth Street.

The 1928 pumper truck rolled easily from the trailer to the street, and with traffic blocked for a few minutes Thursday afternoon, more than a dozen city firefighters surrounded the truck and pushed slowly toward open doors.

Firefighters helped Christian County Historian William T. Turner climb into the driver’s seat, and Alissa Keller, executive director of the Museums of Historic Hopkinsville-Christian County, climbed up next to him. Then Turner came down to help screw the truck’s metal nameplate to the front of the vehicle.

 

Beaver Lane Fire & Rescue, Marshville, NC, heavy rescue. Spartan Gladiator cab and chassis; Cummins ISX12 500-hp engine; Command Light CL Series Octolight 8-head light tower; 26-foot walk-around rescue body.

A new pub will soon be calling downtown Elkhart home.

But it's not your traditional bar. This is being built entirely by firefighters.

They wanted a place to hold their meetings and fundraising events, but also a place for the community to enjoy.

The Parkersburg Fire Department celebrated the grand opening of the new and improved Fire Station No. 2 on the corner of 16th and Covert streets Monday afternoon.

The original Fire Station No. 2 was built in 1931 and suffered a variety of structural issues. It was demolished and ground was broken for the new facility in September.

The process of rebuilding Fire Station No. 2 has been nearly three years in the making, according to Matthews. From designing floor plans to securing the contractual bid through Grae-Con Construction in Marietta and wrapping up the process in late May of this year, it has been a vital process for maximizing modern-day emergency response, officials said.